Layering
The process of organizing information into related groupings in order to manage complexity and reinforce relationships in the information.
Layering involves organizing information into related groupings and then presenting or making available only certain groupings at any one time. Layering is primarily used to manage complexity, but can also be used to reinforce relationships in information. There are two basic kinds of layering: two-dimensional and three-dimensional.1
Two-dimensional layering involves separating information into layers such that only one layer of information can be viewed at a time. Two-dimensional layers can be revealed in either a linear or nonlinear fashion. Linear layers are useful when information has a clear ...
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