The London Underground Tube Map, designed by Harry Beck and first published in 1933, was instantly popular and has now become a design classic. It is a way to show a point-to-point network schematically, focusing not on the exact geographic locations of the points, or stations, but their conceptual relationship.
The London Tube map has become a standard for all subway maps and has been used in many other contexts as well.
Tube maps can be used to simplify and clarify all kinds of processes, systems and interactions.
What kinds of systems, processes, and interactions do you need to think about? Can you make a Tube map to simplify and clarify them?
See also: Hub and spokes, Chutes and ladders, Flowchart, Concept map, Causal loops, Map.
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