Oct 15
This weekend finally my copy of The Functional Art arrived, Alberto Cairo’s long-awaited introduction to infographics and visualizations. Jubilant reviews can be found around the web (among others by Robert Kosara, Nick Diakopoulos, and Stephen Few) so I’m not going to praise again Cairo’s excellent mix of design practice and perceptual and cognitive theory, the …
Feb 14
My research is about the effectiveness of interactives. One thing I’m interested in is the influence of the type and number of interactive features on the ability of an infographic to transfer information. But before you can study this influence, you first have to define what these ‘interactive features’ actually are. Different typologies are possible. …
Jun 16
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 …
Mar 23
Coincidentally, I had to explain the theoretical background of my thesis on several occasions during the last couple of weeks. Each time I found myself drawing the same sketch of the model I use to define some of the key concepts that are part of my research questions. So when I was asked to speak …
Jan 23
How do you get the user inside your infographic? That is the main topic of the 4th edition of the Dutch Infographic Conference held on March 4th in Zeist, The Netherlands. Keynote speaker will be Gert Nielsen, founder of visualjournalism.com. John Grimwade will be talking about information design and the Tablet Revolution. The rest of …
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