Archive for the 'Visual/Technical Communication' Category
theIcons
Published April 23rd, 2008 in Humor, Visual/Technical Communication and theIcons. 4 Comments“How hard is it to break with our clicking habits? What happens if we remove the essential element of navigation from an interface which we are accustomed to? Does it change our behaviour of navigation? Is this change for good or for bad? What do we gain from it? Do we miss The Click at [...]
Message Web Design has created a unique way to survey users’ online text preferences.
We have created an easy-to-use web application which allows users to adjust an on-screen display until they find the text to be easiest to read. They can adjust the font, size, line height and column width - the major contributing factors in [...]
Baseball pitch infographics
Published November 15th, 2007 in Sports and Visual/Technical Communication. 0 CommentsLokesh Dhakar has illustrated a series of diagrams showing the trajectories of variously-pitched baseballs.
The illustrations are simple and clean, and yet still communicate a large amount of information - movement in three dimensions, ball orientation at pitch point, and speed. (Note the color gradients from yellow to red to indicate different speeds.)
Check it out.
Climbing Kilimanjaro
Published November 2nd, 2007 in Backpacking/Hiking and Visual/Technical Communication. 0 CommentsAs an avid hiker and a technical communicator, I was totally geeked by this awesome interactive piece by the New York Times on climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Combining a well-written storyline with a great technical presentation, the piece covers Tom Bissell’s experience as he summited the lofty African peak. Using a Google Earth-based 3-D timeline, each stop [...]
Graph ungoodness
Published September 28th, 2007 in Sports and Visual/Technical Communication. 0 CommentsBonus points to whoever can decipher this chart:
No? Well, it has something to do with a bunch of baseball players whose initials don’t match their names. There’s also some “periods” (which are called “Yr”). We don’t need no stinkin’ Y-axis, because it’s clear that periods are plotted against… uh, “money?” It also looks like someone [...]
