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Drawing for IT Architects

Filip van Laenen
When you make a drawing to explain the architecture of an IT system or another aspect of it, it's important that the reader will understand your drawing. A drawing is worth a thousand words only if the message isn't lost in the graphical noise that can easily appear.
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A picture if worth a thousand words. But what if there's so much noise in the picture, that it's hard to extract any useful information from it?

IT developers are notoriously bad a writing readable texts. Unfortunately, it seems they're even worse a drawing understandable drawings. The goal of this book is to give the reader some hints and tips for how to craft drawings, such that it's easier for the viewer to understand the message.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

  1. How To Read This Book
  2. Who Should Read This Book

Acknowledgements

1.Introduction

2.Vectors and Pixels

3.Shapes

  1. 3.1Types of Shapes
  2. 3.1.1Squares and Rectangles
  3. 3.1.2Cylinders and Pipes
  4. 3.1.3Pseudo-rectangles
  5. 3.1.4Circles and Ellipses
  6. 3.1.5Triangles
  7. 3.1.6Stars
  8. 3.1.7Other Shapes
  9. 3.2Size and Ratio
  10. 3.3Borders
  11. 3.4Corners
  12. 3.5Text Labels
  13. 3.5.1Placement
  14. 3.5.2Size

4.Lines

  1. 4.1Stroke
  2. 4.1.1Stroke Width
  3. 4.1.2Stroke Color
  4. 4.1.3Stroke Patterns
  5. 4.1.4Joins
  6. 4.1.5Caps
  7. 4.2Markers
  8. 4.2.1Arrowheads
  9. 4.2.2Other Markers
  10. 4.3Labels
  11. 4.4Layout
  12. 4.5Line Crossings

5.Colors

  1. 5.1Color Meanings
  2. 5.2Color Combinations
  3. 5.3Palettes
  4. 5.4Shades, Tints and Tones

6.Fonts

  1. 6.1Typefaces
  2. 6.1.1Serif Typefaces
  3. 6.1.2Sans-serif Typefaces
  4. 6.1.3Monospaced Typefaces
  5. 6.2Font Weigth

7.Symmetry, Alignment and Balance

  1. 7.1Symmetry
  2. 7.2Alignment
  3. 7.3Balance

8.Seven Elements

9.Fill Patterns and Effects

  1. 9.1Shadows
  2. 9.2Glows
  3. 9.3Gradients
  4. 9.4Patterns
  5. 9.4.1Hatching
  6. 9.4.2Shape-based Patterns
  7. 9.53D Effects

10.Tools

  1. 10.1Inkscape
  2. 10.2Dia/Visio
  3. 10.3yEd Graph Editor
  4. 10.4The GIMP
  5. 10.5LibreOffice Draw
  6. 10.6LibreOffice Impress/PowerPoint

11.Standards

  1. 11.1UML
  2. 11.2Flowchart
  3. 11.3ER
  4. 11.4BPM

Glossary

References

Photo Credits

Index

  1. A
  2. C
  3. D
  4. E
  5. H
  6. J
  7. L
  8. O
  9. P
  10. R
  11. S
  12. T

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