Nowadays, devices and people are
unceasingly uploading all kinds of information about the economy, locations,
weather and even what sweater makes them happy. With this flood of data, some
believe traditional ways of displaying information do not work well anymore. Helping
people easily make sense of that fire hose of information is a challenge.
Better pictures can help. But many designers, particularly in the tech world,
are straining for new ways to express information.
Using more animation is more than
an idea. Just as films are made by shooting 24 still images a second, then
running them together to show movement, charts of fast-changing data reports
can provide a clearer idea of the information gathered. The animated changes
may be shapes on a map growing and shrinking, colors of bar charts changing or
positions of lines rising or fading. You can’t generate a single design
artifact for this much information but must generate a system that shows the
flow.
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