Flowchart
フローチャート / 1921– / Layout / Diagrammatic Expression
The process drawing the Gilbreths invented for work analysis. The grammar of shapes — diamond for decision, rectangle for process — passed through programming to become the common language of thinking in steps.
A grammar of shapes / The decision diamond / Arrows of flow / Start and end terminals
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Gilbreths' ASME paper, 1921 / ISO 5807 / its rise and fall in software design