topic: Design
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Designing Mobile-Friendly Dashboards: A Case Study with NJ-SHO
In today’s digital world, we can view websites and data visualizations wherever we go – on a laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. However, just because we can access digital material on various devices doesn’t mean that the content has been optimized or built for the device we are using at the time. Mobile Frustration Have…
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Five Star Rating: Usability Testing for Data Visualizations
Understanding Usability Testing If I were to ask you to go to an airline website and book me a plane ticket to Hawaii, would you do it? If yes, you may be my new best friend! Joking aside, how would you purchase my ticket? Once on the website, what steps would you take to book…
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So, you’ve won the lottery, now what?
At a recent team meeting, a few of us wondered what we would do if we won the $1.25 billion (BILLION with a B) Mega-Millions jackpot. And here’s the funny thing – not even one of us could come up with anything – we couldn’t wrap our heads around the almost limitless possibilities and the…
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Exploding Pie!! But Why??
For the past five years as a consultant at HealthDataViz, I have worked with Connecticut-based organization The Donaghue Foundation to design and develop infographics for their annual reports. The organization funds research that promotes knowledge of practical benefits to improve health. Each year, my job was to review curated information pulled from awarded grantees’ research…
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Why Constraints Make You a Better Designer
Constraints: Kryptonite or Door to Creative Innovation? In my work creating data visualizations, I often hear designers complain that constraints are their kryptonite or, perhaps worse, a barbed wire prison fence around their creative freedom. But if we change our thinking, constraints can be the inspiration to break out of old habits, experiment, and try…