Comments on: Visualization and Discovery

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:26:09 +0000

I would tend to agree more with Mary on this as well particularly as it pertains to Newsmap. With a new outlook on usability, I am still marinating the minimalism mental tune after reading your post ‘Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You’ last night.

By: Mary Heart

Mary Heart — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:15:14 +0000

As with all things web, these sites live and die by the quality and freshness of thier core content. Unfortunately, all the the examples given have very limited data sources, so they are quickly tapped out by the user who is on to the next bright shiny thing.

I guess the news sites are exceptions, but both are awfull from my perspective, the last thing I need is the firehose media blitz of all headlines at once. In fact I don’t see where either do anything with the relationships of the stories. The first looks just awfull. The second looks like the typical USA Today pablum of multinational corporate view of world events.

By: Andi B.

Andi B. — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:16:55 +0000

Hi Emily

I’ve got anotherone which is not gathering actual information from the internet but nevertheless offers very important information and is based on some kind of user involvement. I’d consider it a Web 1.45 application. http://www.whc.ki.se/index.php

Greets from sunny Switzerland

Andi

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:18:03 +0000

Argey, thanks for the note. I’ll check out Topicscape when I get a chance.

Emily, thanks, and it’s nice to meet another Emily Chang! :)

Ellen, I like your phrase multiple intelligences.

By: Sholom Sandalow

Sholom Sandalow — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:36:58 +0000

Great post. Those are all good examples of new and innovative ways of using cutting edge technologies to help users visualize information. Although designers lucky enough to be working on experimenting with new data visualization tools should be careful. There is a fine line between usefull and neat. The visual display is always a means to an end, which in this case, is to provide the user with a better way of processing the data he/she is looking at.

By: Ellen Weber

Ellen Weber — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:15:45 +0000

Emily what an exciting look at how people can be part of the action, through using more of their multiple intelligences. All of this can happen because of the way people like you are changing the landscape of the web…. Thanks for this reflection of all we have been given lately!

By: Emily Chang

Emily Chang — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:35:59 +0000

You have my name ;) I love your site as well, great design.

-Emily Chang

By: Argey

Argey — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:57:09 +0000

I’ve been working on 3D mind maps and 3D concept maps for a while now, and after a year in public beta, the result was released last month: 3D Topicscape. It had a review in the Wall Street Journal last Friday. There are user stories at the site showing use for business, projects and hobbies. One is at http://www.topicscape.com/user-story/organizing-project-plans.html
It can turn a collection of notes, web pages and files into something that can be vizualized and understood in a new way, and usually allows finding materials even when the right keywords don’t come to the front of the mind when searching. This is because it allows searching by concept while flying around the information landscape.

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I like http://infosthetics.com (it’s not only for web design !)