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What is Shneiderman's visualization mantra? Visual affordance first, objectives, then aesthetics Highlighting and focus first, drill-down and hyperlinks, then temporal fusion Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand

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I attended a fantastic talk about big data visualisation at the YOW! 2014 conference in Sydney last month (slides), where Doug Talbott talked about how to understand and visualise large quantities of data. One of the things he mentioned was Shneiderman's mantra:

Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand

Leaving aside the thorny issue of how teams structure their software systems as code, one of the major problems I see teams having with software architecture is how to think about their systems. There are various ways to do this, including a number of view catalogs (e.g. logical view, design view, development view, etc) and I have my C4 model that focuses on the static structure of a software system. If you inherit an existing codebase and are asked to create a software architecture model though, where do you start? And how to people start understanding the model as quickly as possible so they can get on with their job?

Shneiderman's mantra fits really nicely with the C4 model because it's hierarchical.