Dakota Lewis - Visual Learning: HTML

Introduction People are visually wired, 70% of all sensory receptors are in our eyes moreover, 50% of our brain is involved in visual processing. This makes people extremely visual creatures able to process an entire visual scene in 1/10th of a second. I wanted to capitalize on the concept that people remember and retain what they see and do four times more than what they read, and eight times more than what they retain from hearing.

I decided to use this information to create a visual learning system than could be applied to educate people on complex topics like data science and programming.

The focus of this project is utilizing design as a tool for curating complex information and topics. I wanted to optimize comprehension and minimize the confusion for people attempting to learn complex skills. By creating simplistic and easy to navigate infographic tools which increase comprehension, we can lower the barrier to entry for programming and informationbased skills which contemporarily are in high demand.

I decided to create my first visual learning tool around HyperText Markup Language (HTML) because it is a relatively basic programming skill. Many people can learn HTML on their own if they dedicate the time, however, this tool would make learning HTML intuitive by using visuals to show relationships in its documentation reference.