Category: information design

  • What is Visual.ly?

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiVKfNeRbPQ] I’m intrigued. My assumption from the name is some kind of bit.ly for the visual realm. Interesting(?) A little. Maybe….*heavy sigh* – y’know I used to really love information design and feel like part of a visual community trying to make a difference but now if everyone’s doing it and recognising it as ‘information…

  • How you doin’

    It’s been around a while but one Newspaper Magazines I read when I arrived in Canberra had an article called ‘The Rise and Rise of the Infographic” (The Weekend Australian Magazine April 9-10 2011). I chose to see it as a good sign of my decision to move. In the article – which was a…

  • Customer Experience Map example – high res

    As promised here is a link to a high-res version (as PDF) of the customer experience map I low-res published the other week. Update 15 July 2012: I have updated this version again with a better version. Context: The map should be seen as part of the solutioning process representing a current state customer and…

  • Ahhh, I am re-orange-yellow-red-ised

    Another brilliant piece from David McCandless (and Always With Honor for this piece). Colours for 62 emotions by 10 cultures. I have been doing much intellectual reading and musing about user experience/service/design/strategy lately so it was nice to come across this infographic in my feeds list. Ahhhh, so nice to get my head out of…

  • Infographic humour

    Sometimes it’s good to make fun. It can’t all be healthcare plans, budget spends and depressing statistics you know. Left:  Anatomy of an Infographic (via Doobybrain.com) especially amusing when you compare with the producers of these types of infographic: Google Facts & Figures, Film Industry by the Numbers Right:  My Way by Christoph Niemann (via:…

  • Infographic Inspiration

    Couple of great infographic inspiration discoveries Left: InfoGraphic Designs: Overview, Examples and Best Practice (via InstantShift) Right:  30 Examples of Creative Infography (via: Designer Daily, found via Optimal Usability Newsletter – Cool Stuff)

  • I don’t care – and then something comes along to remind why I do

    Sometimes, with all the twitter, and RSS, and blogs, and books, and observations, and media, and feeds, and subscriptions and conversations I ocassionaly am struck by a deep, yawing, eye-squinting, cheek-raising “i don’t care”… and then I look at one of those tweets or feeds and I remember why I do. Check out the video…

  • Infographics – impression or realism

    A recent comment about the NY Times infographic got me thinking about why I like infographics and when I don’t. An infographic, I believe, is not about detail – it’s the sum of the parts that are on show. For datzis (data-nazis) – there’s always the source if it’s the minutiae you’re after. I believe…

  • NY Times Infographic of US Budget Spend

    Source: View the interactive version I love this piece of information design! On first glance I thought it was the same as Billion Pound-O-Gram by David McCandles which I like for it’s simplicity and everything in front of you, but i love the interactivity of the Obama Budget graphic. You can look at the whole…