I would say - first read Tufte on the Visual Display of Quantitative Data. Bar graphs and the such are almost devoid of rich information in context.
will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 On Dec 13, 2007, at 10:35 AM, lachica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll throw this idea out there. I've been thinking about the > usability of > nutritional food labeling and thinking there has got to be a better, > more > intuitive way to present this. Ideas from talented interaction > designers > could really make a difference here. > > A graphical presentation such as bars representing the percentage of > daily > values rather than numbers might allow people to more easily see > what they > are actually ingesting. > > Also, taking some of the information from Harvard's food research ( > http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/index.html) and breaking > the > nutritional data into more useful categories might make sense. > > Thanks, > Julie > > On Dec 8, 2007 9:49 AM, Michael Tuminello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all - >> >> I was thinking that the IxDA community has a lot of potential to >> contribute something positive to the world at large, either by >> improving some system that people use for some positive social >> impact, or maybe just making a social issue more visible via better >> information design. >> >> I was wondering if anyone was interested in maybe picking an issue >> and working on it, maybe with the IxDA conference as the target goal >> for having something ready or at least underway. It might even be >> nice for it to be a part of the conference every year... >> >> MT >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* >> February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA >> Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help >> > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
