Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
Always Keeping in Mind the Readers: Legends and Feedback 1
A course by Federica Fragapane , Information Designer
Joined January 2021
Joined January 2021
About the video: Always Keeping in Mind the Readers: Legends and Feedback 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to design the elements that can help the users to read our visualization. These are the legend, the explanatory text, and other visual hints that users will find useful to retrieve information. Finally, I will encourage you to look for feedback and test your project. ”
In this video lesson Federica Fragapane addresses the topic: Always Keeping in Mind the Readers: Legends and Feedback 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model. Bring clarity to complexity by creating an engaging data visualization piece that communicates information with ease.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to work on all those elements that can help us in creating a bridge between our work and the readers. I mentioned as designing visualizations is an act similar to the writing one for me. I'm writing with visual alphabets, and in some cases also experimenting with new visual letters. And for this reason, it's particularly important to provide the readers with all the tools to use such alphabets. And this is why designing a clear legend is essential for me. And it's very important to properly combine visual elements and also words. Another misconception on this fi...”
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Course summary for: Data Visualization and Information Design: Create a Visual Model
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Federica Fragapane
A course by Federica Fragapane
Federica Fragapane is an award-winning information designer based in Italy with a decade of experience. Her work bridges the gap between emotion, empathy, and information. Federica is also the creative force behind Google’s data visualization project The Shape of Dreams.
She has collaborated with organizations like the United Nations, BBC Science Focus, Wired, and Scientific American. Federica coauthored Planet Earth for NatGeoKIDS and Geopolitical Atlas of Water. In 2018, Federica was also invited to speak at OpenVis Conf in Paris and TEDxVerona, as well as EU DataViz at the Publications Office of the EU in 2019, and a virtual lecture at Design Lab, Harvard University in 2021. She also works with La Lettura, the cultural segment of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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