Designing a Metaphor for Your Model

Laura Creekmore
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EDITOR'S SUMMARY

Creating metaphors to explain a data model is vital to explain the model to people without the knowledge or experience to understand it quickly. Much like family trees evoke a sense of relationships between people by using the structure and design of a tree, strong metaphors for information architecture can help anyone understand the relationships in any data model. Good metaphors, such as web “pages,” stick with people, even if they are not completely accurate. New ways of expressing relationships in data demand new metaphors in order to express the necessity of data models to executives deciding whether or not to fund a project or even programmers that need to build around the model. Complex metaphors such as oceans, with ecosystems of fish and other organisms reacting to their environment, are far more accurate and fluid for explaining modern information architecture.

为你的模型设计一个隐喻
创建隐喻来解释数据模型对于向没有知识或经验的人解释模型是至关重要的。就像家谱通过使用树的结构和设计来唤起人与人之间的关系一样,信息体系结构的强大隐喻可以帮助任何人理解任何数据模型中的关系。好的隐喻,比如网页,即使不完全准确,也能打动人。表达数据中关系的新方法需要新的隐喻,以便向主管人员表达数据模型的必要性,以便决定是否为需要围绕模型构建的项目或程序员提供资金。像海洋这样的复杂比喻,鱼类和其他生物的生态系统对环境做出反应,在解释现代信息架构时要准确和流畅得多。
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