tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32917572140242011922011-07-08T07:37:26.873+02:00DD4D - Data Designed for DecisionsA conference and other activities initiated by the International Institute for Information Design (IIID) to take place in 2009 in cooperation with the OECD, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development.
This is about how people interact with statistical data, and how data can support decision making, how data can tell a story.Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-72245610757069065582009-11-21T11:07:00.009+01:002009-11-21T16:36:55.221+01:00Safe Sex in Times of H1N1Customers of a certain establishment in Germany are provided with additional information to help them decide to enter the premises.It may just work in this context ... however, how rational are men likely to be at this point?Funny though this may seem as a piece of information, for me it raised the question on how information design can contribute towards changing awareness about the realities ofVeronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-64762460254045919942009-09-30T17:50:00.004+02:002009-09-30T18:03:35.825+02:00Green lifestyle 2.0GOOD magazine has taken interactive information design to a new level. The "Roadmap to Harmony" leads you to facts and figures about the environment, energy, education, health and more. It delves into exciting concepts, ideas and developments.Long gone are the days when responsible living meant lumpy hand-knitted sweaters, Birkenstocks (yes, they were so uncool in the 1970s) and commune living Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-57586699779291097792009-08-14T10:53:00.002+02:002009-08-18T08:40:57.179+02:00Photos from the DD4D conferencePosted by students who participated in the DD4me project. Find more photos like this on DD4meVeronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-7655346536654346612009-07-25T12:24:00.005+02:002009-07-25T19:30:25.293+02:00Food Labeling II: real food or imitation products?The next can of worms opens up in the discussion of labeling imitation foods.Surprise, surprise, the cheese we get on our pizza is not really cheese but an industrial product that has never seen the inside of a cow.Or ham that mostly consists of water, binding agents and assorted (but clearly regulated) bits of meat.Good news for Vegans? A healthier option to real ham? The cause of the Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-72122289177161022382009-07-25T11:34:00.017+02:002009-08-18T08:38:53.933+02:00The food labeling discussion, like the weather, is heating upToday's Daily Telegraph online writes about the rival systems of gda (guidance for daily allowance in %) and traffic-light labeling (giving red, amber or green traffic lights for levels of sugar, fat and salt content). The UK Food Standards Agency advocates the traffic-light scheme.Which one better supports decision-making, helps change eating habits? What can't be helpful for consumers are Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-55181861782028850992009-05-19T07:54:00.003+02:002009-05-19T08:13:14.302+02:00Search Engine with Added ValueTalking about Data Designed for Decisions - a mind-boggling new search engine delivering not just what I was looking for, but giving context and comparison, turning data into knowledge before your very eyes. I'd say it's magic, Stephen Wolfram says it's Maths.Check out this screencast introducing Wolfram Alpha.Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-85086827302789799792009-03-20T18:46:00.010+01:002009-04-01T11:56:17.790+02:00Cultural StereotypesSome thoughts while watching Jonathan Jarvis’s movie ... (see last post below).At one point he describes typical, responsible Prime-Mortgage customers: man, woman, child, dog. Just before he got to the Sub-Prime customers I briefly wondered how he would visualise irresponsible customers - and got exactly what I expected: lots of children, parents smoking and obviously out of shape, all very Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-1368657146571425722009-03-20T17:23:00.006+01:002009-03-20T18:46:16.512+01:00GOOD Magazine Makes Sense of the Financial MessA competition for the best infographics on the current financial crisis got some beautiful results. Take some time and enjoy - you may learn something new!More on GOOD.And the winner is .... a static version of this great video:The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-56015413400834981272009-03-04T16:20:00.003+01:002009-03-04T16:38:10.438+01:00Correct graph, wrong visual messageReading the header about rising budget deficits and looking at this - correct - graph showing the negative development forced me to actually think about what I was seeing first thing in the morning.7 am with only half a coffee I'm not at my best, but it was interesting how wrong the visual felt even before I had started to look at the actual content.One more case in point that visual Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-41465993916244113412008-10-31T17:26:00.016+01:002008-11-01T22:53:57.517+01:00World Savings DayThe current upheaval in financial markets might just give the old "World Savings Day" a new lease of life.Celeberated since 1924, when representatives from 29 countries decided on the 1st International Savings Bank Congress to make 31 October a day dedicated to the concept of saving, it had gathered a thick coat of dust in recent years, not really suitable to an online banking and share buying Veronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3291757214024201192.post-51405068162885427332008-10-24T10:42:00.014+02:002008-10-29T08:30:22.050+01:00Finding Otto Neurath in Istanbul 2007As an Information Designer I have "grown up" with the pictograms of ISOTYPE and the wonderful, storytelling diagrams of Otto Neurath. (An Austrian national economist born in 1882 who was founder of the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics, conveying complicated social and economic facts with simple visual symbols. The intention was to help the public understand social change.)Imagine my surpriseVeronika Eggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13383602454669185607noreply@blogger.com0