Charlie Park has written an insightful article on Edward Tufte’s Slopegraphs
Protovis is replaced by D3
Protovis, the free and open-source visualisation JavaScript library has been replaced by D3 a new visualisation library with improved support for animations and interactions. http://mbostock.github.io/protovis The final release of Protovis …
Google’s Prediction API
Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
A list of 22 free Visualization Tools
ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
Oliver O’Brien & Pablo Mateos’ Census Profiler
While reading Daniel J Lewis’ blog on Geography and Info Visualisation (which is superb by the way), I came across this excellent census data and map visualisation by Oliver O’Brien …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
Information Visualisation in Design Practice
A great paper from Joanne Mendel and Jan Yeager on Information Visualisation (knowledge) as a design activity in problem solving. This paper discusses the increasing complexity of problem solving in …
Patternry’s a great source for UI design patterns
Patternry, previously known as The UI Pattern Factory (and for a while Pattern App), is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a …
Clay Shirky on information overload versus filter failure
A really interesting Clay Shirky talk from Web 2.0 Expo NY. His talk “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure” challenges the idea that we’ve got information overload problems (we’ve …
An interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
I do like the concept that you have with the information scent, the semantic mapping. I think it definitely ties into the mental model that a user has when they …
Peter Morville, keynote speaker at EuroIA in Berlin September, 2006
This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …
Programme for OZ-IA conference in Sydney (Sept 2006)
Following my previous post on the OZ-IA conference in Sydney next month, the conference programme has now been announced with some exciting practical sessions. Eric Scheid forwared me an e-mail …
Oz-IA 2006 Conference, Sydney (September)
Eric Scheid forwarded me an email on the forthcoming OZ-IA conference in Sydney later this year. :) It’s great to hear this conference is happening back home! I remember (while …
IA Summit 06 Redux
According to recent academic and business research, there is an enormous wave of people on its way to adulthood that may very well take us by surprise. And while many …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …