The information age has brought inconceivable amounts of data to every area of life-at home and in the office, for leisure and travel, for shopping and banking. While the Internet provides instant freedom and instantaneous access to hundreds of valuable resources, navigating through the streams of cyber-information can be maddening. Today's web designers are beginning to understand that it's not just how good the home page looks, but how quickly and easily information can be displayed, accessed, and delivered. Digital Information Graphics confronts the issues that directly affect our interaction with the screen, whether for the World Wide Web, multimedia programs, or even small-screen devices like mobile phones or PDAs. Filled with tested principles, surefire strategies, and scores of examples and case studies, here are the effective, proven ways to present deep arrays of data for the information age. Readers will discover how to display complex environment and infrastructure in simple, innovative ways; analyze and present data gathered from demographics and news sources; convey complex events and situations in a clear, straightforward manner; and push today's technology to its limits, resulting in brand-new ways for navigating a website or interacting with the computer. Filled with 500 stunning examples from top information designers from around the world, Digital Information Graphics makes a vital part of design available to everyone living and working in the digital age.
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Matt Woolman is assistant professor of design communication at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is also design Director of the Center for Design Studies. He is the author of several books, including Type in Motion: Innovations in Digital Graphics, Sonic Graphics: Design for Music, and A Type Detective Story. His books have received awards from Print Magazine, AIGA, and the Art Director's Club, and his design projects have been reproduced in How Magazine, ƒtape Graphiques, and Graphis. He is also principle of Plaid Studios, a design and publishing firm. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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Treat the examples as possible "patterns",
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Woolman's book has merit to anyone wondering how to present a complex data set, so that a user can easily understand what is being displayed. You can use the many examples, especially the diagrams of course, in the book as case studies. Instead of just glancing at each diagram, try closely studying the layout. A sometimes reductionist approach that lets you see deeper than what is immmediately before your eyes.
In language borrowed from programming, you can treat some of the diagrams as "patterns". Though there is no standard terminology in this field, comparable to that used for patterns, insight may still be possible. Of course, the diagrams in the book are often more than just static displays. Often, there is functionality built into the graphics windows that also forms a key part of the user experience.
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