PATTERN LANGUAGE I/VI
(Example For Internet Navigation)
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HOW CAN I USE IT?
 What Is That ?
This is the masterpage of the University of Information. Within this page we will try to expose and to document our design concept and to portray the philosophy of information hidden behind this.
We will start by answering some of the important questions of identification and positioning and we will conclude by showing the reasons for our decisions in design and structure.
How Can You Navigate ?
Beside the control mechanisms, defined and known by the user interface, which allow to move and to navigate within the concerned information unit, we created some further structures and tools. These are marked by color or figure. They activate special operations and functions, to determine an information, to combine and to verify these facts with their environment and to follow them by leaving into another quality.
Therefore it is very important to ask :
Where Are You ?
An essential help for structuring and working out for the recipient is especially found in the answer to this question. The reader must also recognise the importance or the consequences of a message and be able to integrate these into their concerning world. That means, apart from concretising the structure, a temporal order and an informational geographical definition, guaranteed by an unequivocal inclusion of the URL (Unique Resource Location), as well as date, time, headline and layout, the recipient simply has to order these.
Where Are You Coming From ?
This is connected with the answering of the questions: Where are your roots and in which directions can you go ? The exact determination of the value of an information is given only through their background, but without this the information will lose their informative attributes. The figures must be embedded in the other, the unknown stuff. The facts must be related to this and by changing over to this, allow to vary the position and to offer a view over the edge and not least a view in itself.
Are You Here For The First Time ?
It is not unessential for the contemplation and the valuation, to add and to comprise the special experience and skill of the recipient, shortly his very own knowledge. Only by haunting and figured typifying of this treasure it is possible, to determine the new about the known, the grade of the published, the way or the value.
Is This Real ?
To underline or to develop if at all, for the credibility of a given information all media are dependent on the stating of sources and quotations. Because only their choice can manipulate the contents of a message. This reference serves also for the verification of facts and is useful for a deeper investigation, further selection of the authorities and offers the possibility to create control instance.
How Secure Is It ?
To render more difficult data fraud and fake, it seems necessary to add to every information a special bonded remark, which lay open the processes of making and transmitting and the possible security risks during in these methods. Because of the fact that only this remark can take into account the special subjective security requirement of the addressee by risk estimation, this is getting more and more important - the overwhelming governmental, structural and secret wiretapping operations should be taken into consideration.
What About The Other World ?
The value of an information can be supported or underlined, if this information is confirmed by other media such as charts, diagrams, pictures, movies, sounds, music and so on. In other words, the changing of the media location can help to understand and to arrange given facts through another kind of perception.
On the other hand it must be guaranteed, that these additional figures do not undermine the main task of distributing information. It must be clear, that generally all of these further facts only accentuate the information in their major part.
What Is Really Necessary ?
It is very important to offer these facts where they are needed, or to make them accessible for these structures. This means that the whole structure of our service is determined by the needs and the informational and also logistical attributes of the lowest or better technically weakest side.
All figures must be ordered and organised under this catchword, it must be very carefully thought, which facts and data are necessary for our service, and which are not. The reduction of the information overflow onto a minimum but qualified standard seems to be the only possibility to solve the problems of different possibilities and equipment, to prevent the formation of a two class information system.
Which Sizes And Formats Have We Choosen ?
1024x768 greyscale JPG compression max 50 Kbytes;
800x600 greyscale JPG compression max 33 Kbytes;
640x480 greyscale JPG compression max 33 Kbytes;
TIF no compression 800x600 RGB greyscale 495 Kbytes;
GIF no compression 800x600 RGB greyscale 281 Kbytes;
TIF compression max 800x600 RGB greyscale 182 Kbytes;
JPG no compression 800x600 RGB greyscale 83 Kbytes;
JPG compression min 800x600 RGB greyscale 50 Kbytes;
JPG compression avg 800x600 RGB greyscale 50 Kbytes;
JPG compression max 800x600 RGB greyscale 33 Kbytes;
Why Are We Using Only Our Average Greyness ?
16.777.261 colors 800x600 JPG compression max 83 Kbytes;
65536 colors 800x600 JPG compression max 50 Kbytes;
256 colors 800x600 JPG compression max 33 Kbytes;
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