Design

Jonathan Corum, the Science graphics editor at The New York Times, talks about…

Abstract: The Art of Design kept popping up on my Netflix recommendations list…

Alec Barrett for TWO-N describes the benefits and some of the intricacies of…

Lisa Charlotte Rost for Datawrapper provides guidance for designing choropleth maps that most…

You know those graphics that use icons of people to represent units or…

The process of building a client project with varied expectations along the way.

Oh. It’s that time of year already. Time to hate on the rainbow…

Adam Pearce, a New York Times graphics editor, provides the notes and thinking behind the charts he made during the year.

Make charts with a purpose.

Lena Groeger, writing for Source, shifts attention upstream from analysis to the design…

Choropleth maps, the ones where regions are filled with colors based on data,…

With data visualization, you start with the data and let it guide geometry,…

Visual editor Xaquín G.V. recently used the distracted boyfriend meme to represent our…

I’ve been slow to get into making things that are responsive. But maybe I should hurry up.

Filmmaker Kevin Smith talks about making things versus critiquing them. He’s talking about…

Statistician John Tukey, who coined Exploratory Data Analysis, talked a lot about using…

Dual axes, where there are two value scales in a single chart, are…

Lena Groeger for ProPublica describes when the designer shows up in the design,…

Phew. Close call.
New York Times graphics editor Gregor Aisch noted during a…

Issara Willenskomer talks in detail about the use of animation in UX design…