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Bifocal Display

Category:
The Design Exchange
Type:
Method
People:
1 User(s),   1 Collaborator(s)
Characteristic:

Communicate      Audience: Core team, Audience: Core team + immediate collaborators, Audience: Full team, Format: Virtual, Level of persuasion needed: Low, Level of tact needed: Little, Medium: Presentation, Purpose: Inform

Date:
March 8, 2015
Summary:
A Bifocal Display simultaneously shows a large data space with minimal detail and a subportion of that space with full detail displayed in context (like a magnification). Distortion around the borders helps to maintain visual continuity between the detailed and contextual views, illustrating how...

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