For the past five years as a consultant at HealthDataViz, I have worked with Connecticut-based organization The Donaghue Foundation to design and develop infographics for their annual reports. The organization funds research that promotes knowledge of practical benefits to improve health. Each year, my job was to review curated information pulled from awarded grantees’ research proposals, including Read more…
If you had asked me 3 years ago if I sketched out or created wireframes for my dashboards before I built them in Tableau, I would have laughed a resounding, “No, are you crazy? I don’t have time for extra work!” I don’t think I’m alone in that initial sentiment. Read more…
Constraints: Kryptonite or Door to Creative Innovation? In my work creating data visualizations, I often hear designers complain that constraints are their kryptonite or, perhaps worse, a barbed wire prison fence around their creative freedom. But if we change our thinking, constraints can be the inspiration to break out of Read more…
It’s not uncommon for me while designing a data visualization to wrestle with two, seemingly, competing priorities: successfully visualize all necessary data elements and charts on the dashboard and minimize the noise so the most important pieces of the data are easy to find. As Kathy Rowell, HDV Principal and Read more…