Posted: September 18th, 2009 | Author: Danny Chang | Filed under: Assignments | Comments Off
The way we choose to display the data is more important than vollecting the data. Its more like telling a story with the simple grqph itself. Choosing the wrong way to display the data coild misleading the viewer or make them confuse about what you try to deliver in the graph. Some ways are good to show the dramatic defferences. Some of them are good to tell the relationship between each conponent. Nike plus website uses bars to show the user progresss at a glance by day to give the sotry of progress in between each day
Posted: September 10th, 2009 | Author: Danny Chang | Filed under: Data viz inspiration | Comments Off
is an installation web data viz project which exhibited in MOMA Design and the Elastic Mind.
I Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests.
I went to the exhibition personally and it was mind-blowing experience. I am always interested in human relationship and social networking. I Want You to Want Me has a 56-inch touch screen interface which you can browse through profiles which collection from various online dating sites every few hours.
The dating site usually has a complex search engine with poor interface design. I Want You to Want Me changed the experience that how the online dating site can display their member profile database. It’s playful, easy to understand and fun. It makes the serious profile page into objects like balloons flying in the sky. The profile searching experience is much more visual and interactive than what your typical online dating site does.
Posted: September 10th, 2009 | Author: Danny Chang | Filed under: Assignments | Comments Off
Tufte Article:
Tufte used to be on the reading list in my interface studio last year. I tend to think the information he provided was kind of dated. I don’t know if I fully agree this article since it does have its point, but at the same time it kind of killing the design. His thought was to the maximize the data-ink ratio. I can totally see that in Design and Coding process which matches his ideas of making it as simple as it can. Sometimes I wonder if it’s too simple since it almost becoming a bare-bone structure. We do want to make it as simple as possible, and reduce all the redundant data, but if it worth to reduce all the “ink”(sometimes it’s for design purpose.). Revise and edit is just the standard design process.
Christiane Paul Article:
Organized and categorized information is so important in our life since we are overwhelming with the amount of data we generated in internet age. The more information we have which mean we need to find a better way to organized, managed, displayed and distributed it. The article sort of talks about the database existed in different media. I wonder what’s his thought of the ways we access the database these days. All the different API and not standardized database structure. Do we need to find a solution with a uniform way to access most of databases.