http://www.beckwade.com/mashup_assessment/fandomID.php
And Beck’s design process blog: http://rebecca-wade-n8095272.tumblr.com/
I got the idea for creating a fandom news mashup because I seem to always be the last to know when something new happens within one of my many (geeky) areas of interest.
Come Glide with Me Plane Tutorial Video!
http://comeglidewithme.erinklapper.com/
Erin’s design process blog: http://minimaldesigns.erinklapper.com/
Erin has not only created a novel mashup with the ability to print out and play with your search results… but she has also made a Tutorial Video with an orignial piece of music… GREAT WORK ERIN!
Make your very own paper plane and discover the world. Enter a country in the box below and click ‘Glide!’ to begin your adventure!
‘Come Glide with Me’ is a cute and fun way to learn about all of your favourite countries and cities in the world visually.
Simply type in any country or city you wish to see and hit Glide! Print out the template of your paper plane, create it, and glide!
(via paperweb)
And his design process blog: http://phatcoindustries.tumblr.com/
Pole Monkeys is a mobile-friendly mash up for pole dancers. You’ll find a wealth of interesting mateial here. Use the icons on the home page to take a look around. And next time you come back you will find all new material. Why? Because everything on this site is contantly updated from a range of sources all around the globe!
Pole Monkeys really does reveal the shape of pole dancing today.
http://www.take5restaurant.net/n8086141/index.php
and his design process blog: http://n8086141nhirstkib204.tumblr.com/
Fuel Hub gathers the information needed for you to take advantage of the cheapest fuels prices. It displays the average fuel price in the major cities of Australia, so you know when it’s best to buy petrol. It will also help you discover service stations near you using Google Maps and Google Places.
Inspirations:
The inhspirations for Fuel Hub were simple informative interfaces offering everyday information in interesting ways. These included the very simple Coffee Seeker and the hilarious and immersing Zombie Weather.
And her design process blog: http://carolinekib204.tumblr.com/
HelloCamera provides live images, products and videos related to a camera model name that is entered into the input box. Providing users with a one page website for learning and eCommerce purposes makes the learning process of photography easy, stress free and enjoyable.
(via carolinekib204)
The increasing scale and availability of digital data provides an extraordinary resource for informing public policy, scientific discovery, business strategy, and even our personal lives. To get the most out of such data, however, users must be able to make sense of it: to pursue questions, uncover patterns of interest, and identify (and potentially correct) errors. In concert with data-management systems and statistical algorithms, analysis requires contextualized human judgments regarding the domain-specific significance of the clusters, trends, and outliers discovered in data. Visualization provides a powerful means of making sense of data. By mapping data attributes to visual properties such as position, size, shape, and color, visualization designers leverage perceptual skills to help users discern and interpret patterns within data.
A single image, however, typically provides answers to, at best, a handful of questions. Instead, visual analysis typically progresses in an iterative process of view creation, exploration, and refinement. Meaningful analysis consists of repeated explorations as users develop insights about significant relationships, domain-specific contextual influences, and causal patterns. Confusing widgets, complex dialog boxes, hidden operations, incomprehensible displays, or slow response times can limit the range and depth of topics considered and may curtail thorough deliberation and introduce errors. To be most effective, visual analytics tools must support the fluent and flexible use of visualizations at rates resonant with the pace of human thought. Heer, Shneiderman
(via notational)
A seriously ‘deep’ work…
By the Huang Twins (Cary and Michael) http://htwins.net
It’s not the most attractive work, visually… but it is very compelling.
The music by Kevin MacLeod compells you further and further into the work…
Jacob Harris presents an alternative visualisation regarding data about the Iraq war… proving that the Word Cloud is an ineffective, irresponible, insensitive and lazy method to represent critical information… information that deserves an acurate and emotional reponse from those of us distant from and uninformed about the lives of others.
Please compare these two visualizations — derived from the same data set — and the differences should be apparent:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
- Mapping a Deadly Day in Baghdad from The New York Times
- word cloud of titles in the Iraq war logs from Fast Company
Jacob Harris refers to Word Clouds as the “mullets of the Internet”. I couldn’t agree more! Jacob offers some ‘insightful’ examples in his 2011 article.
Of course, the biggest problem with word clouds is that they are often applied to situations where textual analysis is not appropriate. One could argue that word clouds make sense when the point is to specifically analyze word usage, but it’s ludicrous to make sense of a complex topic like the Iraq War by looking only at the words used to describe the events. Don’t confuse signifiers with what they signify.
I’ve seen this pattern across many news organizations: reporters sidestepping their limited knowledge of the subject material by peering for patterns in a word cloud — like reading tea leaves at the bottom of a cup. What you’re left with is a shoddy visualization that fails all the principles I hold dear.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/word-clouds-considered-harmful/
Oct. 13, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
Jacob Harris is the senior software architect at The New York Times.
“The diffusion of sensors, communications, and processing power into everyday objects and environments will unleash an unprecedented torrent of data and the opportunity to see patterns and design systems on a scale never before possible. Every object, every interaction, everything we come into contact with will be converted into data.” - Institute for The Future: Future Work Skills 2020
Thanks http://blog.cloudemerald.com/
(Source: The Atlantic, via heartthecloud)
Some extra info related to one of todays lecture topics… IT trends that will influence interface design practices…
Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.
By David F. Carr
Fri, March 23, 2012
http://www.cio.com
How early exposure to Dungeons & Dragons manifests later in life, in a flowchart by Sam Potts.
I totally empathise!
With 2 exceptions
A sample set of some of the best student poster submissions ‘New Features of Web Interface Design’
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
Another Tumblr rant by Deb Polson.
This is a new studio program designed for students of the "Interactive and Visual Design' Degree at QUT in Brisbane Australia.
This particular unit is called "Web Interface and Information Design".
It is designed to take students through a series of projects of increasing complexity. Starting with basic image making through to generative and interactive data simulations.
This tumblr provides some inspirational examples and reports on the progress of this program. Cheers!
