The SHYFT design team presented at the Boston Data Visualization and UX Meetup in Boston at Cambridge Innovation Center. Our talk was titled “Designing for Data Visualization: Hierarchy, Color, and Interaction,” and was presented by Alex Sitbon, Pouya Shabanpour, and myself. An outline of the talk we presented is given below.
https://www.meetup.com/DVUX-Workshop/events/256406505/?rv=md1&_xtd=gatlbWFpbF9jbGlja9oAJDllMTg1MmY4LWEwMGItNDhiNC1iZDg2LWM5NzY0YmNkMDYyMw&_af=event&_af_eid=256406505
Building a design culture (Alex Sitbon)
- Overview of organization and products
- Company philosophy around design
SHYFT Design Process (Pouya Shabanpour)
- Design team roles
- SHYFT design process
- Data visualization design process
- Product and user personas
- Information architecture
- Design challenges
Case study: Designing Colors for Data Visualization (Erica Gunn)
- Data as design challenge
- Defining contexts for using color
- Designing a technical color palette – more than “picking colors” (this post discusses this and the previous bullet)
- Quantitative and categorical color palettes
- Establishing a visual hierarchy for charts
- Using visual hierarchy to support interactions based on user tasks
- Flexible theming with color systems