Infographics tools for anyone – and anything
Seeing sites like re.vu, and vizualize.me makes me really happy. I am glad these sites and many, many more simple to use sites that makes data and information come alive exists. You can even use these tools that imports data from other popular (social) sites as quick tools for making your own fast, but really cool presentation...
Prototyping for iPhone
I had the opportunity to make an interactive sketch for a project on the iPhone the other day. I was pressed for time and really wanted the project. So I decided to take a closer look at tools for rapid prototyping for iPhone/iPad. I have some limited knowledge from the past in making native apps...
QlikView margins
QlikView is absolutely wonderful. Giving access to data this way deserves standing applause. The enterprises using QlikView gets access to compare, analyze, find relations and display data in a very convenient way. However, as an information designer I find the lack of typographic control and especially margins frustrating. And to be honest I find it...
I wanna go eyeo
Eyeofestival seems like the one place to go this year. All the speakers are absolutely awesome. And all in one place. From the early launch site: eyeo brings together the most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow – expect an amazing three days of talks, labs, demos & events fueled by...
Graphs, triagrams and national strategic foresight panel
I had another really meaningful meeting with former GapMinder staff Jörgen Abrahamsson and Professor Jonas Löwgren at Medea, Malmö Högskola this tuesday. Jonas documented it really well and put it up here, including a video where we all speak swedish to the pretty pictures I was really baffled by Jörgens triagrams and their simplicity and...
Processing JS – 1.0 arrived – including 3D
I thought I would post my progress on graphs during the summer but things took another direction. At least I got a picture for it. I will write more about that and marrying Jung with Processing later. Picture is NOT ProcessingJS. It sure could have though. Because tonight I was amazed to see that ProcessingJS...
Graphs
So graphs (and its companion graph theory) are apparently the talk of the town. Cool. Graph based databases (neo4j) and other related graph based things are popping up in places where complexity is high and low. I found graph theory mindtickling a couple of months ago when I read an extremely basic introduction to it...
