Design Exploration

This tutorial is not intended to be comprehensive.

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    Partial Designs View

  1. If not already selected, From the combo box, Select "Partial Designs" (located between the Tree View and the Tree Control)

  2. In the Tree View, Select (i.e. click on) "[25] Partial Designs"

    • Tree node label: [25] indicates the number of partial designs in the collection.

    • Information Panel: The "Partial Design Summary" and "Widget Summary" might give you insight for exploration and analysis.

  3. Select "[8] C-02 (40-548)"

    • Tree node label: [8] indicates the number of windows in the partial design. 40 is the number of widgets and windows in the partial design. 548 is the number of terms occuring throughout the partial design.

    • Information Panel: Shows information provided by the users with the Creation Tool

  4. Expand C-02 (i.e. click on "+")

  5. Select "[5] Window 25 (C-02:25)

    • Tree node label: [5] indicates the number of widgets in the window.

    • Information Panel: Thumbnail and text provided by users for that window.

  6. Expand Window 25

  7. Select "List 31 (C-02:31)"

    • Information Panel: The the thumbnail shows the selected widget outlined in red in the context of its window.

  8. Terms View

  9. From the combo box, Select "Terms" (located between the Tree View and the Tree Control)

  10. In the Tree View, Scroll to and select "[71] apartment (95)"

    • Tree node label: [71] indicates the number of windows and widgets that contain the term. Moreover, the term occurs 95 times overall.

  11. Expand apartment

  12. Select "3 in Apartment Results (C-06:37)" - 11th in list

  13. Collapse apartment (i.e. click on "-")

  14. In the Tree control, Under Omit: Check Numbers.

  15. Under Omit: Check Stopwords

    • Tree View: Removed stopwords (e.g. the, a, an, of, etc.).

  16. Under Omit: Check Misspelled

    • Tree View: Removed misspelled terms (i.e. terms not found in the limited included dictionary)

  17. Under Sort: Select By Frequency

    • Tree View: Terms reordered according to frequency - lowest to highest

  18. Under Order: Select Descending

    • Tree View: Terms reordered according to frequency - highest to lowest

  19. Clusters

  20. From the combo box, Select "Design Component Clusters" (located between the Tree View and the Tree Control)

  21. In the Tree View, Select "[17] Cluster 4"

    • Information Panel: Thumbnails of all items clustered together. Items representing a widget have the widget highlighted in red in the context of its window. Similarly, items representing Spatial Groups are highlighted in green. Otherwise, the item represents the window including all of its widgets.

    • Note: There might be a delay as thumbnails load.

  22. Expand Cluster 4

  23. Similarity Navigation

  24. Right click "[4] Rent, Bill, and Anemities (C-12:28)"

  25. From popup menu, hover over "Go to similar"

    • 10 most textually similar items.

  26. From submenu, select "Window 1 (C-19:1)"

  27. In Information Panel, Right click thumbnail.

  28. From popup menu, hover over "Go to similar"

  29. From submenu, select "Text Area 46 (C-10:202)"

  30. Open/Close Partial Design Windows

  31. In the Tree View, Double click "Text Area 46 (C-10:202)"

    • Window: Opens window as created with the Creation Tool

    • Selection Indication: Widget is highlighted in red.

  32. In the Tree View, Click "Label 44 (C-10:203)"

    • Changed widget selection in window.

  33. In Information Panel, Double click thumbnail

    • Closes window.

  34. In the Tree View, Right click "[1] Buying Results (C-10:205)"

  35. From popup menu, Select "Open Window"

    • Opens window as created with the Creation Tool

    • Selection Indication: Window background is red.

  36. In Information Panel, Right click thumbnail.

  37. From popup menu, Select "Close Window"

    • Closes window.

  38. In the Tree View, Right click "[5] C-11 (106-1047)"

  39. From popup menu, Select "Open Windows"

    • Opens all windows in the partial design as created with the Creation Tool.

  40. In the Tree View, Right click "[5] C-11 (106-1047)"

  41. From popup menu, Select "Closes Windows"

    • Closes all windows in the partial design.

  42. Search Overlay

  43. In Search Overlay, Check "Filter Data"

    • Sometimes you have to toggle Filtering off and on to refresh text highlighting.

  44. Type "apartment" into the text field

    • Tree View: Yellow background indicates the item is a match. Yellow square to the left indicates the item contains a match.

  45. In the Tree View, Scroll to the top

  46. Expand "[9] C-06 (42-648)"

  47. Expand "[3] Apartment Results (C-06:37)"

  48. In Search Overlay, Select "Show only matches"

  49. In Search Overlay, Press "Add"

  50. In new criteria, Select "Widget Type", "is", "Text Area"

    • All widgets are Text areas that contain the word apartment.

  51. In Search Overlay, Check box to the left of "Anywhere" "contains" "apartment"

  52. In Search Overlay, Press "Removed Checked"

    • All widgets are Text areas regardless of content.

  53. In Search Overlay, Uncheck "Filter Data"