(Illustrated above) An architect likes that she can change the contents of views in her building modeling application based on what her current goals happen to be. For example, she can view the 3D model as a full color, rendered building form, or as transparent wire frame geometry. She also has options to visually highlight different features of a building’s design that have certain identities tagged to them, such as ventilation or lighting systems.

A financial trader wants to close out the day by increasing his trading volume with some of his best business relationships. He chooses options in the “incoming offers” table in his trading application that will reduce the extremely long list of potential deals to a visually categorized set of promising proposals made by his preferred firms.

A scientist is looking for outlier data in the results of a clinical study. She changes a color coding scheme in her analysis application so that only data points with very high or very low values are highlighted in a dynamic visualization.

In which separate tasks or larger activities do targeted individuals use the same information representations? How do these usages vary?

How might differing uses of a single representation suggest opportunities for valuably transforming it to meet important scenarios in targeted work?

What larger design and technology trends could influence your team’s ideas about how information displays in your application concepts could be manipulated around diverse goals and constraints?

What visual changes might your team envision to usefully highlight various types of meaningful differences within a single display?

How might interactive transitions between your sketched view transformations promote certain types of clarity and meaning? How could these navigation actions draw perceptual linkages that may enhance coordinations in users’ efforts?

At what point might a transformed information representation become an entirely different view of application content, rather than a different take on the same type of display?

What demographic and localization requirements might your team consider while envisioning representational transformations?

How might certain goal driven, interactive display changes promote emotional responses that are conducive to attentive, focused thinking?

When could transformed views become individuals’ preferred perspectives on application content? What options could usefully facilitate customizable defaults?

How might transformation of shared representations lead to breakdowns in common ground for communication and collaboration?

How could your computing tool introduce and frame the value of certain view transformations? What instruction and initial scaffolding might be useful while individuals are learning to use these new display methods?

How might your team’s ideas about representational transformations relate to your other design responses for supporting work in the context of volumes of information?

Do you have enough information to usefully answer these and other envisioning questions? What additional research, problem space models, and design concepting could valuably inform your team’s application envisioning efforts?