How To Make Toast: A Flowchart!

To get a grasp how to build an effective piece of interactive design, our tutor showed us how to make a flowchart. By breaking things down simply into steps it makes it much easier to understand and if there is a problem or something that is unclear one can pinpoint exactly where that is.

Below is a basic (and humorous) example of how to make toast, as long is one is not too picky about their bread. Realistically this step could probably be broken down into a simple step.

A written example of how this chart would be set out is as follows:

1. Place toaster on a flat surface.
2. Plug in toaster.
3. Switch power on.
4. Adjust dial to between 1 and 2.
5. Get bread out of cupboard
6. Feel like white bread? (YES: Go to 10. NO: Go to 7.)
7. Feel like multigrain bread? (YES: Go to 10. NO: Go to 8.)
8. Feel like wholemeal bread? (YES: Go to 10. NO: Go to 9.)
9. Have cereal then.
10. Decide on having 1 or 2 pieces of bread.
11. Place bread in toaster.
12. Pull down the lever.
13. Prepare to catch toast.
14. Catch toast.
15. Is toast dark enough? (YES: Go to 16. NO: Go to 11.)
16. Spread butter on toast.
17. Spread on jam, honey or peanut butter.
18. Eat toast.

Note: This flowchart should more accurately be named "How to make and consume toast."