10 Challenges Facing Information Design Today
When I first set foot on my path as an information designer, I never thought the field would explode in popularity as it has today. Where there was once a drought of information and resources on the...
View ArticleAn Analysis of Visualization Discourse
How might we make sense of all the talk surrounding visualization today? Note: I’ve used “visualization” throughout to remain consistent with the language of both articles, but I feel the term is still...
View ArticleThe Dawn of the Understanding Age
Time to shift our priorities from making more information to making sense I’m officially calling for an end to the Information Age. For the past 60 years or so, we’ve made outstanding progress with...
View ArticleNew Modalities of Understanding
While doing research on the links between information architecture and information design, I came across a video clip of Richard Wurman talking about the origin of the term he has been credited with...
View ArticleAdvancing the Human Journey
How might information design improve our journey in the world? (screenshot from Journey) The concept of the journey spans cultures and traditions around the world. Journeys form the core of ancient and...
View ArticlePublic Space
Sometimes thoughts need the right space to happen, the right space to live in. We may choose to distance ourselves from one dimension of our reality to experience another, to have new ideas or gain...
View ArticleEmbrace the Wait
Have you ever stopped to think about waiting? We spend so much time just waiting for some things to happen, other things to pass. Consider the moments of waiting that happen over the course of a...
View ArticleBridging Generations
As someone who’s slowly inching toward 40, I feel distinctly out of place with the present. It doesn’t feel like my present. The more I age, the greater the sense of anachronism. Three distinct...
View ArticleA Life Less Designed
“What the hell am I doing?” I ask myself on a Sunday morning, half-covered in grass clippings. The weather is warm and immaculate, ideal for a hike or picnic or lazy stroll through town. Instead, here...
View ArticleAn Accessible Future
What will the future of information design look like? Often, technology rises up to propose the answer: better software and analytic tools, more sophisticated visual forms, ubiquitous touchscreen-based...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Information Implosion
Time to open Pandora’s Box! This post touches on some deep and controversial problems surrounding information today, most of which have been heightened by this year’s election. More work is needed to...
View ArticleTowards the Good
For me, 2016 will go down as the year of the gut, when reason and restraint took a holiday. Foundations were shaken, bigly. Concepts like data, information, fact, and truth were all sent through the...
View ArticleReady to Know
In the worlds of information design and data visualization, there’s plenty of attention paid to the Data and Information side of the DIKW continuum and how to transform one into the other. If the...
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