Monthly Archive: June 2011

Jun 28

Interactive books, interactive graphics

Remember when you went to high school loaded with a bag full of heavy textbooks? Well, those days are over. In this TED talk software developer Mike Matas demonstrates the tablet version of Our Choice, the sequel to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. And guest what, this full-length interactive book for the iPad features some …

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Jun 20

Your own personal infographic

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There are all kinds of reasons for adding interactivity to an infographic. After I asked Dutch designers what they considered to be the best interactives on the web, I questioned them about their ideas about the function of interactivity. An incomplete list of recurring keywords would look like this: to make a graphic more comprehensible …

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Jun 16

Best Interactive Infographics on the Web (according to Dutch Designers)

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What are the most inspiring interactive infographics on the web? It was just one of the questions I asked Dutch infographic designers in a survey I conducted earlier this year. A total of 39 respondents together submitted 90 best practices, either entire websites or specific interactive infographics. Some of them are well known examples, others …

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