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Marsh Affinity Group Services Administered Plans, a Service of Seabury and Smith:

Life Insurance

• Group Term

• Group 10-Year Term

• Group 20-Year Term

Health Care

• Major Medical

• Short Term Medical

• Catastrophe Major Medical

Group Dental Insurance

Accidental Death & Dismemberment Long Term Care

Disability Income

May + June 2009

Liberty Mutual Administered Plans:

• Group Savings Plus^® Auto and Homeowners Insurance

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When Judging
Visual Representations,
Consider Five
Basic Criteria:
1) FIT

Is the representation congruent with the model?

• Do representation and model have similar structures?

• Are all the elements in the model explicit in the representation?

2) LEAST MEANS

Could the model be represented in a simpler way?

• What can be removed without changing the meaning? (Remove decoration.)

• Could conventional symbols or other standard patterns make reading easier?

3) CONSISTENCY

Are the means of representation consistent?

• Similar forms should represent similar functions or similar content. Likewise, similar functions or similar content should be represented by similar forms.

• Are all elements and their connections labeled?

4) CONTRAST

What about the model should appear to be most important?

• Does the most important thing appear most important? (Not everything is equally important. Important elements of the model should stand out in the representation. One way to achieve contrast is through scale, making more important items larger than less important items.)

5) HIERARCHY

How do the elements of the system appear to fit together?

• Is the structure of the system clearly visible?

• Do we know where to look first?

• Can we find a clear path through the model?

The final test of the model (and
representation) is with the audience.

• Does the audience understand it?

• Do they agree with it?

• Do they agree that they agree?