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Introduction
« on: Dec 16th, 2003, 5:20am » |
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Casey has been kind enough to let me co-moderate this section of Discourse. I'm excited. Like many of you, I am learning as I go.
Recently I have devoted time to studying information visualisation. I've developed a reverence for it, having had meaningful conversations with and worked professionally for people in this field.
Two things fascinate me about information visualisation:
1. its use of graphic (and sometimes physical) language to tell a story.
2. its potential to tell a compelling story.
It's a good exercise in language to make simple studies of well understood themes. Clocks, in particular, seem to be very popular here. I've made one, as have many of you. Is there a compelling story to be told in hours and minutes?
I would love for someone to design an improved calendar. Can you find a way to show project timelines (or the relevant things that you spend time on) in a visual way? Ask yourselves: how it has been done before (in print, online, etc)? How can it be done better? Or be done differently?
For those who are interested, more open ended thoughts on visualisation can be found here:
http://forkinsocket.weblogs.us/archives/005940.html
It is my hope that this community become more than a place to merely show work; this space has the potential to be a place to share wisdom, to find critical yet thoughtful commentary (beyond the words 'nice work exclamation point exclamation point'), and grow as designers.
Perhaps this is asking too much of the online experience. These things are hard to nurture in the real world, let alone the virtual. Still. How will we know, if we do not give it a chance?
[appologies for the cheesiness, but i thought it would be good to end on an upbeat note]
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