---
categories:
- documentation
- research
date: 21/03/2023
description: station skill at the research station
slug: documenting-research
title: documenting research
---

### Tagging topics

![pad lifecycle](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/pad-bis/media/branch/master/lifecycle.jpg)

lifecycle, software, diagram, stack, meme, metaphor, readme, process

_i asked_

- how to convey the structure of a complex system in an accessible way?
- how to offer entry points for people not familiar with such a system?
- what could it be a familiar metaphor?

_i did_

- figured out the structure of the system: found out that is a circular process
- researched for metaphors: lifecycles, environmental cycles, water cycles
- focused on images targetting kids like elementary school aesthethic, paint-it-yourself drawings, etc. in order to have a really really really accessible metaphor
- that this is something that should be done during the research! not months later ah ah


_i found_

- that using an image let you be more precise and less scared of being precise
- that this process can happen in different moments ! aha

_i know_


![Nassi-Shneiderman chart example](nschart.jpg)

diagram, process, visualization, technical writing, metaphor, flow, branches

![ping pong](https://git.xpub.nl/kamo/drw/media/branch/main/img/pingpong.jpg)

meme, architecture, software design