Apr 23
BBC The Beauty of Maps: Seeing the Art in Cartograpy [bbc.co.uk] is yet another example of a BBC television series which focuses on matters concerning data visualization. It is another proof how visualization is becoming an interesting feature in popular press.
While the online video clips are restricted to people living in the UK (snif), foreigners are still able to explore a couple of compelling example projects, such as a NASA Map of the dark side of the Moon, Phillippe Bourcier's map of the movement of data on the Internet, the most complete map of the universe, a map of social conversations on blogs, next to a whole section dedicated to historical maps. The last episode even delves inside the world of political and satirical maps.
People living in the UK are welcome to make the rest of us jealous, and describe the quality of the series in the comments section below.
In the meantime, others have the chance to marvel at YouTube's surprising top search results of the query “beauty of maps”.
via BBC The Beauty of Maps: Seeing the Art in Cartography – information aesthetics.
Jan 23
Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better.We’re very aware that there are more people like you outside of government who have the skills and abilities to make wonderful things out of public data. These are our first steps in building a collaborative relationship with you.
via Unlocking innovation | data.gov.uk.
Jan 20
Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures
Posted by Ron in Design, Interaction Design on Jan 10th, 2010 |
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I purposely left out some of the icons at first launch because I wanted to hear some feedback before people thought I had a fully thought out solution. So, I have updated this post with the additional icons and the explanation for the purpose of them at the bottom. Enjoy!
One of the prevailing themes of my writing is the ability for everyone to gain common grounds when discussing interactions. I believe one of the keys to this is a common metaphor, OCGM (Objects, Containers, Gestures, and Manipulations) as well as a set of icons for use in design. When sketching out the user experience it’s important to note the interactions. This is especially true in state diagrams, specs, and other interaction design documents. In my first installment of Gesturcons, I present to you the Gesturcons : Touch Pack 1.0. These are being released under the Creative Commons License and I hope that you all find some good use for them in your designs and experiences.
This is the first batch, for touch. I also have Spatial, Voice, and a few others in the works.
via Gesturcons: an icon language to describe natural user interface gestures- Experience Design by Ron George.
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