Tag: Design

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Romana Popocovski

Starting From Visualisation: Lines and Squiggles That Lead to a Nobel Prize

How one man's unconventional thinking and use of simple visuals transformed the way physicists were tackling quantum interactions.
A dashboard with a big red "Redesign" stamp over it. A cartoonish crown hangs on the dashboard's top right corner.H
Alex Kolokolov

How I Took Off My Dashboard Crown and Admitted My Mistakes

An intern ripped apart a dashboard that I had considered a model of good design. I chose to swallow my pride and learn from the experience.
Pages of the New York Times with maps of the United States filled with dots of varying densities. Some maps have county lines, others have state lines.C
TK Sajeev Kumar

Capturing One Million Deaths on a Page: A Chat with NYT’s Carrie Mifsud

Carrie Mifsud of "The New York Times" talks about her award-winning front (and back) page design to commemorate one million COVID deaths.
Hyper-realistic AI-generated image depicting a people's eyes gazing intently at intricate graphs and data, blending human and technological perspectives.M
Erdni Okonov

Making Dashboards Optimal for Human Brain Processing

How the science behind brain processing and active memory can help guide our dashboard and other data visual designs.
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Will Stahl-Timmins & Nadieh Bremer

Showing Human Stories Behind Data Points

Will Stahl-Timmins was struggling to visualize groups of people in a humanizing way. Then he heard Nadieh Bremer's tips on data aggregation.
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Alex Kolokolov

When Charts Looks Like Spaghetti, Try These Saucy Solutions

Tangled heaps of lines and numbers are a recipe for disaster. Here's how to make a dashboard with more visually appetizing charts.
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Arlene Birt

The Future of the Creative Process Is Increased Collaboration

More than 60 scientists and I co-designed data visualizations for a major climate report. Here are key lessons from that experience.
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Nick Desbarats

Connected Scatterplots Make Me Feel Dumb

Connected scatterplots are often used to show the relation between two variables over time. Why use them when there are better alternatives?
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Or Misgav

Finding Solace in Tracking My First Trimester Nights

Through sleepless nights and overwhelming fatigue, I used data and art to discover my strength—and the beauty of resilience.
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Theresa-Marie Rhyne

The Generative AI Blues: Choosing Data Color Schemes with Adobe’s Firefly

Follow these steps to explore color choices with Adobe Firefly, a creative generative AI model. Plus: the color theory behind the process.
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Matthew Mason & Massimiliano Belli

Step Aside Line Graphs And Bar Charts! This Is a Job For Me.

If line charts and bar charts don't quite fit the data, step charts can be a great alternative. Here's a primer on when—and how to—use them.
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Joceline Kuswanto

Looking East: Kontinentalist’s Design Principles Enhance the Asian Narrative

At Kontinentalist, strong guidelines empower designers to be adaptive, flexible, and responsive while remaining true to core values.
A highly complex graphic where the x-axis is population density (people per km^2) and the y-axis is energy consumption per person (kWh/d/p) Both axis are onlog scales. The countries are shown as colored bubbles that are sized according to land area. Diagonal lines show power consumption per unit of area.D
Satya Amaran

Defying Chart Design Rules for Clearer Data Insights

Sir David MacKay, a UK scientist, challenged conventional chart design and created a truly insightful data visualization about sustainable energy.
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Duncan Bradley

Taking Time Is an Effective Way To Process Large Numbers

A striking memorial to the victims of COVID-19 in the UK reveals a neglected temporal dimension of data visualisation.
Details from an infographic and magazine article, showing the Warming Stripes on a page in the background with another page showing a red-and-blue polar bar chart laying over the topT
Chesca Kirkland

The Making of “The Growing Influence of the Warming Stripes”

Chesca Kirkland shows the process behind her visualisation—from Nightingale Issue 2—that explores the growing influence of the Warming Stripes.
Cohabitation network (a collection of circled nodes connected by lines) where each node is a mammal. There are 5,286 nodes and 62,385 edges colored by the continent of the animal's primary habitat. The colors are shades of browns, blues and grays. The nodes are more clustered by color here than in the country-level network.U
Milán Janosov

Using Color to Interpret a Complex Network of Threatened Species

In a busy network diagram of threatened land mammals, different color treatments show how the animals' habitats are geographically connected.