FreshSpectrum - Blog for Data People
Creative consultant Chris Lysy talks about data, culture, technology, and design. He also draws comics.
Are you interested in design? On this page you will find blog posts on topics like design accessibility, user experience design, graphic design, human centered design, and data design.
If we chose clothing the way we chose charts, we would all look the same. How dull. My contention, there is no single right chart or wrong chart, that said, here is how I go about …
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Understanding context is important when designing, with or without data. And overwhelm is an almost universal challenge in our oversaturated contemporary digital culture. Did you …
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So I live in North Carolina, luckily a bit in-land, not by the coast and not in a flood plane. With an impending Hurricane Florence, I'm a bit worried about the people in the eastern part of the …
Let's not overthink Tableau. It's a tool, and as a tool it can do some pretty cool things. But only if you have a reason to use it. Over the upcoming weeks I'm going to focus on specific …
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Every time I drive to visit family in Maryland I sit in DC traffic and think..."I wish we could teleport." Unfortunately, as far as I know, teleportation is not possible. At one point in time, …
Years ago I launched a digital workshop. My goal was to teach evaluators and researchers how to design, based on the challenges that evaluators who design would face. It was exactly how I found …
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