Diamond Carat Chart Actual Size

The flowchart, another specialized form, charts a process or workflow, its boxes and arrows outlining a sequence of steps and decisions, crucial for programming, engineering, and business process management. A poorly designed chart can create confusion, obscure information, and ultimately fail in its mission. The opportunity cost of a life spent pursuing the endless desires stoked by the catalog is a life that could have been focused on other values: on experiences, on community, on learning, on creative expression, on civic engagement. The user’s task is reduced from one of complex design to one of simple data entry. There are actual techniques and methods, which was a revelation to me. They were clear, powerful, and conceptually tight, precisely because the constraints had forced me to be incredibly deliberate and clever with the few tools I had.