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  • Telling a Good Story with Interactive Line Charts

    The New York Times does a great job using interactive graphics to tell a story. Recently the New York Times reported on the details of the United States 2011 budget proposal and how the projected budget deficits may affect US policies and power in the...
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  • Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 2 - The Pizza Effect

    In one of the recent editions, Time magazine featured this graphic:     The underlying data set is pretty simple. It consists of just 8 numbers which are used for four target/actual comparisons: how many swine flu vaccinations 4 organizations...
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  • New blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 1

    One of the trends in UI design is data visualization. With data volume and complexity continuously rising, data visualization becomes more and more important as a means to translate data into information and further information into knowledge. Edward...
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  • Time Perspectives of User Experience

    In the March/April 2009 issue of Interactions ( http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1226 ) Don Norman cites psychological evidence that events are judged differently before, during and after they happen: Folks tend to judge events as more positive...
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  • Room for Improvement: Firefox

    Here’s something that has been bothering me for a while. You can set Firefox (I use 3.0.7) to ask for your permission to delete the private data that was accrued during the session upon closing the browser. This is what the dialog looks like: I think...
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