Comments for Information Design Watch

Comment on The Infographic Dump by Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:41:06 +0000

And then there are the intentionally lying infographics. Check this out:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/correlation-or-causation-12012011-gfx.html

Comment on What’s This Mobile Thing For, Again? by Matt DeMeis

Matt DeMeis — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:17:02 +0000

Perhaps another reason people have a fire under their butts for implementing mobile sites is the fact that the global sales of smartphones surpassed PCs 2 years earlier than predicted. Panic time!

Comment on Mitten State, or the Difference Between a Brand and an Ad Campaign by Kate Woodbury

Kate Woodbury — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:19:43 +0000

I was going to write “But I don’t associate cheese with fun” but actually that’s not true!

Wallace & Gromit are *definitely* fun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciayqUMCViY&feature=related!

Comment on Mitten State, or the Difference Between a Brand and an Ad Campaign by Henry Woodbury

Henry Woodbury — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:23:07 +0000

“fun” is the ad campaign. “Cheese” is the brand. I was trying to work in a cheese reference, but it was getting me off point.

Comment on Mitten State, or the Difference Between a Brand and an Ad Campaign by Kate Woodbury

Kate Woodbury — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:05:33 +0000

I hate to say it–and I apologize to Wisconsians everywhere–but “fun” is not the first word that pops to mind when Wisconsin is mentioned.

“Cheese.” “Cheese” comes to mind.

Or is that Minnesota?

Comment on Orientation Ratio by Joe

Joe — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:42:15 +0000

9:16 is too damn skinny only if you assume the object of perusal must fill the entire screen. This is what makes it so absurd to keep making TV wider (at least in prototypes); you will always have to letterbox some content.

Of course, if you use wide margins and comic sans, who cares what the aspect ratio is?

Comment on The New and Improved Google Reader! Slightly Dingy and Now with Dark Patterns! by pcd2k

pcd2k — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:27:19 +0000

Mostly the redesign of google reader is fine, with two exceptions.
Firstly the number of posts remaining to read becomes hidden as soon as one begins to scroll down to read the feeds. Sometimes the number of posts left to read appears in the top bar of the Firefox window, but I don’t understand why the number frequently disappears from there ?

Secondly google removed the small Like button. This is mostly annoying since it was a small but helpful way of informing some bloggers that they’re posts and contents are good but not quite good enough to promote via social media. Young or inexperienced bloggers need encouragement and this Like button at the very least gave a harmless yet indicative way of click-able communication.

Comment on The New and Improved Google Reader! Slightly Dingy and Now with Dark Patterns! by Dave from Wireless USB card

Dave from Wireless USB card — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:13:18 +0000

I don’t like new Facebook design, but like new Gmail.

Comment on Nightingale’s Rose by Herbert

Herbert — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:50:19 +0000

What’s your data source? The table on http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/214 gives different values.

Total number of deaths by zymotic deceases in January 1855
2761 vs. ~1500 in your chart…

Comment on Visualizing Scale at the Tate Modern by jose mateus

jose mateus — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:01:07 +0000

when someone is like a genious…