Another thing - start by not thinking about rows of data filled with records. Instead start with the fundamental unit - A person in a HR system A book in a library A car in used car lot.
Imagine them all as nodes on a graph. Now - instead of being simple circles representing - say - honda accord - think of the shape as a dodecahedron. Every place on the shape where vertices meet is called a faced - which maps to an attribute - say - color, price, mpg, horsepower - now imagine all the more powerful ways of dynamically visualizing things/sorting things (nodes - cars) based on those facets, grouping them in sets of thinks - like playing with math blocks as a kid - if you start to think about discreet database records as objects like this thought experiement - you might come up with whole new ways to display the data. On Feb 13, 2008 4:41 PM, W Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tufte is a good place to start - Envisioning Information, Visual Display > of Quantitative Data, Beautiful evidence. His examples are old, but the > ideas about how to think about the problem are par none! > > 2008/2/13 Pierre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Greg said: > > Not being funny, just looking to learn something from folks with way > > more experience than myself! > > > > My Response: > > > > Sparklines come to mind or anything à la Tufte. > > > > http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR > > > > > > Pierre Roberge > > User Experience Designer - Business Analyst > > etfs > > > > (819)-566-2901 #2193 > > 1-800-465-8602 #2193 > > http://www.etfsinc.com/ > > > > > > ---------- > > etfs inc. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or > > entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or > > privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other > > use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by > > persons or entities other than the intended recipient, is prohibited. If > > you have received this in error, please contact the sender and delete > > the material from any computer. Unless otherwise stated, opinions > > expressed in this e-mail are those of the author and are not endorsed > > by the author's employer. > > > > etfs inc. L'information transmise ne s'adresse qu'au particulier ou à > > l'organisme à qui il est dirigé. Il peut contenir des renseignements de > > nature privilégiée et/ou confidentielle . Si le lecteur de ce message > > n'est pas le destinataire visé, ni l'employé ou le mandataire chargé de > > la livraison au destinataire visé, il est par la présente avisé que > > toute dissémination, distribution ou transcription de cette > > communication est strictement interdite. Si vous avez reçu la présente > > communication par erreur, veuillez nous en aviser immédiatement par > > courriel et détruire le document de tout ordinateur le contenant. À > > moins d'avis contraire, toute opinion exprimée dans le présent courriel > > est celle de son auteur et n'est pas endossée par l'employeur de la > > personne qui l'exprime. > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > ~ will > > "No matter how beautiful, > no matter how cool your interface, > it would be better if there were less of it." > Alan Cooper > - > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > ------------------------------------------------------- > will evans > user experience architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- -- ~ will "No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it." Alan Cooper - "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" ------------------------------------------------------- will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 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
