{"id":4436,"date":"2016-06-17T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/evaluation\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2019-09-24T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:10:45","slug":"design-and-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nec\/2016\/06\/17\/design-and-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Principles in Evaluation Design"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Sometimes… it seems to me that… all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.” Michelangelo
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Michelangelo is not the only one who thinks design is important in all human activities.\u00a0 In his book A Whole New Mind<\/em>, Dan Pink considers design to be one of the 6 senses that we need to develop to thrive in this world. As Mauro Porcini, PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer points out “There is brand design. There is industrial design. There is interior design. There is UX and experience design. And there is innovation in strategy.” \u00b9<\/p>\n

There is also evaluation design. Whether we’re talking about designing evaluation for an entire project or just one section, like the needs assessment or presenting evaluation results, evaluators are still actively involved in design.<\/p>\n

Most of us don’t think of ourselves as designers, however.\u00a0 Juice Analytics has a clever tool called “Design Tips for Non-Designers<\/a>” to teach basic design skills and concepts.\u00a0 Some of these are very specific design tips for charts and power points (which by the way are very important and useful, like “avoiding chart junk” and “whitespace matters”).\u00a0 But some of the other tips can be jumping off points for thinking about bigger picture design skills, such as:<\/p>\n