LearnDiscovery App - #Mindmap of #Wikipedia





This work depicts the process for creating digital assets to tell about the three key experiences identified in UX research for mobile app in learning and discovery (Reference and Edutainment category).





For each experience, a short description of the tools / skills to design and execute deliverables.





Making of Story Telling.

Discover. Wonder. Create.





The making of " Discovery ".

Data science applied to knowledge networks: a topology of knowledge network is plotted, creativity is applied with color scheme of product to represent a sky, like looking at Sky of knowledge.



Tools : Wolfram Mathematica, Python, Adobe Photoshop.

Process: data-mining, data-modelling (multi-partite knowledge graph), data-visualisation.

Queries performed against the knowledge graph are plotted as a visual graph. Data-visualisation layer is post-processed in PS.





The making of " Wonder ".

Scripting is applied to a knowledge map: for each topic, an image is data-mined from the web. The assembly results in a subject told by that knowledge map.





Tools : Python, Adobe LightRoom.

Process: knowledge maps (a map depicting a subject, like "Van Gogh", or "Caravaggio" or "Solar System", or "History of Ottoman Empire" and so on) are created with the mobile app. Maps are then processed with python scripting, to collect and cluster visual images by similarity. Clusters are then processed and composed in LightRoom, as a mosaic telling about consistency of knowledge maps.







The making of " Create ".

Knowledge maps are like geographical maps to navigate knowledge landscapes. Recalling from discovery pioneers and navigators, a heritage map is manipulated to represent the look and feel of the final product, which allows to create and bookmark knowledge maps for own reference.





Tools : Adobe Photoshop.

Process: Metaphor of knowledge discovery, as a geographic discovery: here, the maps where the key technology enabling for exploration.

A knowledge map created with the mobile app is laid over a geographic map - tools like compass, astrolabe tells the process of inquiring and discovering, taking progressively distance from topics that are familiar, to chart novel knowledge territories. Image is then post-processed and finalised in PS, optimising enlightening, shadows, gamma correction.