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Inspiring visualizations

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

The NSF Science & Engineering Visualization winners (via Data Mining) are inspiring pieces of work. The real challenge is to find ways to exploit the work put into visualizations like the modelling of the flight of a bat.

Tags: visualization, design

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Redesigning a Cognitive Tool

Monday, August 27th, 2007

The Bloomberg interface is a cognitive artefact which is a part of any stockbrocker’s life. Unfortunately, it’s interface is still stuck in the 80s:

Notice the stark contrast of the terminal’s ultramodern design with the clunky interface. The people at Portfolio noticed this too, and asked three design firms to explore the redesign of the Bloomberg interface (via UX magazine). […]

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Stakeholder Influence

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

In an interesting article in boxes and arrows, Michael Beavers gives tips on stakeholder interviews. What I found extremely interesting is his representation : very information rich and useful for any organizational investigation.

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