Design

Nicola Rennie provides five quick tips to improve on default axis scales:
[T]he…

The Art of Insight, by Alberto Cairo, highlights how designers approach visualization with…

The Washington Post provides an introduction to fonts with mini-quizzes and straightforward examples.…

Color and contrast choices often are a product of personal preferences, but you…

Charts that use two different scales on the same vertical often get the…

If you don’t use a colorblind-safe color palette in your maps and charts,…

Fabio Crameri, Grace Shephard, and Philip Heron in Nature discuss the drawbacks of…

Using the third dimension in visualization can be tricky because of rendering, perception,…

Dashboards aren’t really my thing, but we’ve seen, especially over the past few…

It seems that there is always surprise when a hurricane makes landfall in…

In a collaborative effort with UX agency Kore, Moritz Stefaner describes work with…

Changing the fonts you use for labels and annotation is one of the…

For Bloomberg, Marie Patino reports on the shifting design choices for mapping weather…

Selecting a color palette for a single chart can be tricky, which is…

We see probabilities mentioned in the news, in weather forecasts, during sporting events,…

Øystein Moseng for Highcharts provides a brief guide on making your visualizations for…

Many states use color to represent levels of Covid-19 and/or county restrictions. The…

On a superficial level, color scale selection seems like a straightforward task. Pick…

Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us. Even when we know what is…

For NYT Opinion, Betsy Mason outlines the design challenges behind election maps. Do…