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pictures: text, images, visualisation
This
page looks
at working with graphs,
charts and illustrations to convey information online.
A glorious mix of eye-candy and
insights about the use of charts, maps and graphics for conveying
information online and in print is found three books from Edward Tufte:
The Visual Display of Quantitative
Information , the classic on
statistical charts, graphs and tables
Envisioning Information,
design strategies for complex information, high resolution displays,
layering, hierarchies and other issues
Visual Explanations: Images &
Quantities, Evidence & Narrative,
interface design, scientific visualisation, graphics for decision
making, narrative and animation
They are published by Graphics Press
(Cheshire, Connecticut) and available in quality Australian bookshops.
Richard Saul Wurman's Information
Architects (New York, Graphis 97) has pages of glorious - though
arguably often disfunctional - graphics from designers for print and
online media.
Information Graphics (London, Thames &
Hudson 98) by Peter Wildbur & Michael Burke may stimulate thought. Digital
Diagrams: How To Design & Present Statistical Information
Effectively (New York, Watson-Guptill 00) is indebted to Tufte.
visualisation
Readings in Information Visualization: Using
Vision to Think (San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann 99) is a demanding but
exciting set of essays edited by Stuart Card and Ben Schneiderman.
Colin
Ware's Information Visualization: Perception for Design (San
Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann 99) is strong on physiology .... not to be sniffed
at, since at least some of the visitors to your site will be colourblind.
Robert Horn's Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
(Bainbridge Island, MacroVU 98) is an introduction, by one of the fathers of
hypertext, to integrating text and images.
Designing Visual Interfaces:
Communication Oriented Techniques (New York, Prentice Hall 94) by Kevin
Mullet & Darrel Sano is an excellent introduction to the theories behind the
design of user interfaces and their consequences.
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