The Machine Influence on Data Design
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The document discusses the influence of software design on the creation and use of infographics, defined as data-driven visuals combining charts, text, and images. It emphasizes that while software tools can facilitate data visualization, there is no perfect solution, and designers' choices shape user engagement and experience. The author, Trina Chiasson, advocates for informed decision-making in software development to enhance user learning and creativity.
The Machine Influence on Data Design
- 1. The Machine Influence on Data Design Trina Chiasson • @trinachi • infoactive.co
- 2. What is an infographic? “It’s a really long jpeg” “It’s a collection of charts, text, and images, combined to tell a data-driven story” “A visual representation of data” “I have absolutely no clue”
- 3. A graphic that presents information INFOGRAPHIC:
- 4. Definitions of visual data engagement Static Interactive Exploratory
- 5. Data visualizations are hard
- 8. Microsoft Excel was born. This changed the game, forever.
- 9. The perfect software doesn’t exist
- 11. Adventures in building datavis software http://slid.es/trinachiasson/deck/fullscreen/ https://infoactive.co
- 12. we can’t predict your creative process As software designers...
- 13. Every choice about what to build is also a choice about what NOT to build
- 14. Our choices influence user behavior
- 15. User behavior influences our choices
- 17. The Search for a Default Sandwich
- 18. The Which Wich Dilemma
- 19. I just want a sandwich
- 20. I don’t need to invent a new visualization format
- 21. I need something simple that works
- 24. Fonts and color choices
- 25. Responsive position vs. freeform
- 26. “You’re not building a product. You’re building a testing tool.”
- 27. If I’m not falling, I’m not learning
- 28. Informed choices & measured learning Testing and Research
- 29. We want to learn
- 30. Trina Chiasson • @trinachi • trina@infoactive.co reynolds fellow, cofounder & ceo of infoactive Let’s ask questions