El Gradiente · A digital guide to patterns of violence
A guide to recognising patterns of behaviour.
I am developing El Gradiente with Dr Martha Alicia Tronco Rosas.
The project brings together her experience with Violentómetro 1 and 2.0 and my work on TEG-Blue, writing, visual design and digital development.
A look inside
the guide.
El Gradiente is a working guide to 64 patterns of harm, in English and Spanish. These pages show how I bring the descriptions, examples and navigation together.
Explore the current guideFrom a description to its examples
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Finding a pattern
I brought the colour navigation, pattern names and short descriptions together in the catalogue. Readers can start with a description they recognise and open its page for explanations and examples.
Screenshot in EnglishConnecting examples and explanations
I placed the description and everyday examples on the same page so readers can move between them. The gradient and links to the rest of the guide stay alongside the explanation, making it possible to explore another pattern without returning to the catalogue.
Screenshot in EnglishPatterns
and their context.
The guide describes patterns of behaviour such as humiliation, monitoring someone’s phone, threats and aggression. Each entry gives examples and explanations so a reader can examine what happened in context.
The 64 patterns are arranged across a visual gradient. Readers can begin with a pattern they recognise, open its explanation and follow links to information about healthy relationships and support.
The guide available now
A digital guide in English and Spanish, available to read without an account. It is a working version that we are continuing to develop.
The colours group descriptions by how harm can appear, including patterns that are difficult to recognise, restrictions on someone’s choices, physical or sexual violence and immediate danger to life. They help readers browse the guide; they do not score a relationship, describe a sequence everyone follows or predict what will happen.
Open El GradienteWhat Martha
and I contribute.
We bring different experience to this project. Here’s what each of us contributes to the guide.
Martha’s contribution
Dr Martha Alicia Tronco Rosas brings her experience with Violentómetro 1 and 2.0. These tools are conceptual foundations for El Gradiente.
Visit Martha’s websiteMy contribution
As the creator of TEG-Blue, I also design and develop El Gradiente’s digital guide. I organise its content, connect the descriptions with examples and build the pages for phones and computers.
A reader may recognise a pattern before knowing what to call it. I connect each description with examples and further information, so the route through the guide follows what the reader can already identify.
The writing and interaction develop together: what a reader sees first, how they find a pattern, and what information they need when they open its explanation.
Working with
organisations.
If you work in an institution, government or company, I’d like to hear what you have in mind. We can start with the people you want to reach and the questions you want to explore.
Our shared aim is to provide digital tools that help people understand patterns of violence and support work to prevent it.
A conversation could begin with an educational resource, a training context or a question an organisation wants to investigate. We would first clarify who the resource is for, what it should help them understand and what needs to be developed or studied.
The guide is the current work. Further tools and studies would be developed around an agreed purpose.
Tell us who the resource would serve
Tell me about your organisation, the people you work with and what you would like a resource to help them understand or do.
Discuss an El Gradiente collaborationSomething you’d like
to develop?
El Gradiente shows how I bring subject knowledge, writing, design and development together in an interactive guide. If you have an exercise, explanation or research you want to share, we can discuss who it is for and whether it would work best as a written explanation, a website or an interactive app.
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