Any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message.
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Display big numbers in a small area
I am developing an accounting app where I display several orders. Every order has a price.
I have a box where I would like to display the price as shown below:
This works pretty well for fairly ...
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2answers
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Visualization of event occurrences over time
I have a short time range tstart – tend ( ≈ 90 seconds) and a list of points in time which represent events that occurred at that point. I'm looking for a concise visualization of these ...
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6answers
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Why is tree representation of data becoming unpopular?
I'm asking not about professional software like IDE's, but about OS GUI and web interfaces.
A few years ago there was File manager in Windows, Gopher and other interfaces and data models like this.
...
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3answers
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Using a Timeline in a Responsive Design?
I might already know the answer to this but would like some feedback / opinions on this. I am currently putting together a responsive design that will use a linear horizontal timeline. This works ...
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2answers
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Interaction model for hierarchical selection
For a line chart, I would like the user to be able to drill-down and look at how specific groups are fairing over time. First, there is the selection of dimension and then groups within that ...
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2answers
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Finding a label for items that don't fit into categories
I'm maintaining a reporting application. When displaying data, there is an option of displaying a certain number of items explicitly and lumping together other items into a single category. For ...
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0answers
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What is the best way to display info from a table that has 20+ fields? [duplicate]
I have a giant table that has more than 20 columns and 10 pages with 15 rows each!
How can I display this data in a way that's readable and understandable for the user?
What alternatives exist?
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2answers
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How to visualize sentiment analysis of social media (ex: tweets)?
I'm trying to research potential ideas for visualizing sentiment analysis - specifically sentiment analysis of Tweets about a subject. I have some data and have bucketed the tweets into three buckets ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to visualize an org chart when people have multiple responsibilities?
I have asked the following question on stackoverflow around modeling an org chart. This focused on the DB modeling details, etc but I want to ask a related question here focusing purely on the user ...
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2answers
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How to define the status between now and a last checkpoint?
I have sets of probing data from an internal monitoring tool which represent the availability of different services (databases, webservices and so on).
Now my task is to visualize this data and I ...
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3answers
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How to go about presenting a large family tree?
I'm currently developing a game, and one of the features involves breeding the creatures you collect.
Since it's a game, a large amount of promiscuity is to be expected, and individuals could ...
4
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3answers
66 views
Representing large numbers
I'm developing a charting application. There could be a situation where I would have to display large numbers on the chart. The problem is that they number labels have to fit inside the chart columns, ...
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5answers
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How to visualize data with extreme value differences?
I am working on some routines for a client application to visualize data in a 3d bar chart style. The data consists mostly of smaller values with only a few large values. For example:
6,942,535,341
...
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3answers
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How to organize multiple information popup areas over a table?
How might you best organize multiple popups over a table when both the table content and the popup content are equally important.
Scenario:
Tabulated data, for which the user may be interested in ...
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3answers
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Commentary book on information architecture outside the Internet
I know there is no single correct answer to my question, so I would be grateful if mods could turn my question into community wiki.
I’m looking for a book about information architecture in everyday ...
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3answers
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How to show progress towards goal?
On our intranet we display some numbers for our employees so they can keep track of their performance goals. Currently it's just a table.
We'd like something more visual, and this was the first ...
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6answers
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How to present weighted values
I have a formula which is used to calculate certain scores. The formula has some parameters (shown in the image below) including a Weight parameter that is changed dynamically (the rest of the inputs ...
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3answers
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Improve display of date range inside a table
I have been taking a look at this post, but it is not exactly what I am looking for, plus I have hour and minutes and is inside a table.
My current table is this one (bigger image):
The problem I ...
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3answers
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Visualizing structure and intermediate results of a computation
I have a financial desktop application and there are many places where different computations are performed and a single number (or a couple numbers) is shown as a result.
Very often users are ...
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1answer
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Legacy Text Interface (e.g. Telnet) to GUI [closed]
I work in a very large, established company with a consistent philosophy of, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The (large) division of the company that is responsible for maintaining customer ...
3
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4answers
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Suggestions to display large amounts of flight prices?
I have an app that I wrote as a hobby project (when I was learning F#) that collects price data for flights for a given route. I now want to open this up on the web but the major stumbling block I ...
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4answers
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Has anyone come across the term 'infographic aesthetics' before? [closed]
I have been doing infographic design as part of providing content for websites and software applications (and print materials as well), and I know a lot of people talk about the concept data/ink ratio ...
4
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2answers
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How should locations without exact addresses be represented on a city map alongside locations with exact addresses?
I have a dataset of items I'm interested in mapping over a greater metropolitan area, with multi-item cluster markers at a zoomed-out scale and single-item point markers when zoomed in. Users would be ...
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5answers
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Way to display a lot of end-game data
I am building a web app for providing League of Legends players with a more detailed match history and statistics as well as an internal ranking system (for friends) and achievements, as well as an ...
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3answers
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Information visualization - display 6 related ranges on a single chart
I sell apples and oranges.
I know how many items of each kind I expect to sell today and I know how many I've actually sold so far. I need to design a chart displaying this data in real time. What's ...
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2answers
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Best way to display a date range
I'm looking for the best way to display a date range in text that could potentially span across 2 lines. Currently I simply have something like "01-Jan-2013 -> 05-Jan-2013" with the arrow being an ...
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2answers
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Best visual representation for monthly values
What kind of data visualizations do you use to show a binary state of a month?
By "binary" i mean just two options for a month. Either "available" or "not available". The last vis on the example ...
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2answers
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Symbols to represent dynamic items
This problem is not new to me.
An user can have multiple interests, so he will check some items that is presented to him. For this example. Ten items of interest.
So he will mark as interested in ...
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2answers
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Multipart progress / status bar colours
I am working on an application that needs to show users their currents status / progress in performing a task on a number of items. There are three states that each item can have:
New (blue) - ...
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5answers
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Is there a widely-understood visual metaphor for using part or all of an existing item to make a new one? [closed]
I'm looking to convey the following functionality to users: able to take part or all of an existing short text entry and make a new, related text entry from it.
For example, if a user encounters the ...
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18answers
2k views
How can I keep up-to-date with the latest thinking about designing complex, rich applications?
I am designing a very complex eco-system of apps.
I like to make sure I am up-to-date with the latest thinking, research and trends in app and UI/UX design. I find that there are many great articles, ...
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4answers
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Is there any value in using “irrelevant” icons
I'm currently wireframing/"UXing" and doing the front-end dev work on the rebuild of a reasonably big intranet app with lots of data in various sections. To make things easier for the users to pick ...
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1answer
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Tufte's data density, readability and comparison
I'm intrigued by Tufte's data density. While I love his definition of data / ink ratio which can be easily measured, I have hard time measuring data density.
He defines data density in a graphic as a ...
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1answer
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Developing the news area for a website
I'm developing a simple website to a small company. It has a back-office (built with PHP and mySQL) for edit/ add/ remove some content like products and news.
The news has some text and an image. ...
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1answer
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Seeking research and guidance: what is the maximum usable density of lines in a line graph?
I am seeking any guidance and hopefully published research for guidance about line density in line graphs.
Here is a hypothetical example: I want to show a line graph depicting frequency of code ...
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5answers
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What's the best way to graph results of a matrix ranking question?
I'm reworking an existing module which graphs results from a live survey with several different question types. I discovered that the results of matrix-type ranking questions are graphed as a single ...
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4answers
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How do I represent null values in a line chart?
I am building a web-based analytics platform. I am looking to plot a line chart that represents the number of seconds it took for me to reach a live service agent via phone on a given day.
In the ...
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3answers
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Best UI approach to align the column titles of reports
I would like to know what are the best approach to align header columns according with the data type.
I haven't found any Human Design Interface article explaining this.
Do the header column must ...
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5answers
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Allow users to choose visualisation type?
Wondering if anyone has any recommendations or articles on this.
Basically we conducted research into the best methods of visualisation are for particular datasets. Basic example, data plotted over ...
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1answer
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Ideal number of data points per 100 pixels for a chart
If there are too many data points too close together in an image, it can look pretty choppy.
In this case, we are tracking number of data points over time; eg 500 per minute, 500 per minute, etc.
...
5
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1answer
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Can this chart axis labelling be improved? (Showing zero in histogram)
I have a chart like the one pictured, with the following "tick intervals":
0, 1-10000,10001-20000,20000-30000 and 30000+
What is a consistent way of labeling the x-axis? I am not pleased with how ...
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2answers
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Interesting visualizations for a personnel in-out control
I have a database with the data of all the company personnel in and out through several facilities (All people must put their fingerprint in the scanner to open doors)
I'm looking for interesting way ...
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1answer
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How shall I display my application version and contact details to the end user
The traditional approach for displaying application information to user is through Menu.
User select Help > About and we display a popup displaying the details.
Is there a better approach doing ...
6
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4answers
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I want to group countries on a map into different mutually exclusive groups. What is the best interactive way to achieve this?
I am in a process to create an interactive map which displays sales of a product by region. Based on the data shown there is a possibility that I may find similarities between a few regions and want ...
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2answers
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Graph for toggling data set
We are building a network monitoring tool and we need to show a graph which shows the Active/Inactive state of the machines.
Like for example, during a period of 24 hours, during which periods the ...
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3answers
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Spacing of items inside a panel (WrapPanel)
Many sites and applications using WrapPanel to display your items.
Items are queued from left to right and when there is no more space tend to skip to the next line.
For Example:
What is the ...
2
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1answer
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Feature Matrix: Compare Products by Date/Time Range?
Problem Statement
It is common to allow a user to compare two or more products in a matrix that lists features/benefits down one axis and the selected products along the other. But how do you ...
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3answers
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Reputation Scoring Signals
My Question:
How is the UX of the best, or any, web reputation systems capturing and
representing offline influence within a community?
What are the signals that are quantified or illuminated in ...
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1answer
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UX around open data [closed]
I'm looking to better understand Web User Experience around the opening of data by organizations.
An example is what the world bank has done with their data, see this.
So I'm looking for:
Notes, ...
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0answers
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Need icons for SQL datatypes [closed]
I'm looking for icons which could be used to visually represent the various datatypes of SQL Server (for a nice db-doco). Is such a thing out there somewhere (commercially or public domain) or would I ...
