Week 2

Personal research, critical reflection and documentation of studio project work:

During week 1 and week 2 we have looked at the design process and the planning and research that needs to be taken to successfully finish with a final work. However Depending on the successes (or failures) during the process, the steps are not entirely progressive. The key to a successful project is to Review, analyse and revisit constantly and Review, repeat and re-do where necessary. 

The design process:

What is interaction design:

Interaction design is one of several similar areas of design: 

  1.  UX Design = User Experience Design
  2.  UI Design = User Interface Design
  3.  IA Design = Information Architecture Design 
  4. IXD = Interaction Design

“Interaction Design is the design of interactive products and services in which a designer’s focus goes beyond the item in development to include the way users will interact with it. Thus, close scrutiny of users’ needs, limitations and contexts, etc. empowers designers to customize output to suit precise demands.” 

  • INFORMATION DESIGN 
  • DATA VISUALISATION
  • INFO GRAPHICS
  • INTERACTION DESIGN (IXD) 
  • Subsets UI DESIGN / UX DESIGN / IA DESIGN 

Information design:

How can we explain large amounts of data, tell a story, reveal connections and relationships or display comparisons? 

Reflective process:

During week 1 and week 2 we had to choose sets of data to our relative concept and save them into a spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel), so we could later transfer those files into illustrator where we could create the data into a visual form. My sets of data first came from the Australian Bereau of statistics, were i was looking at the underlying causes of death. however after research i found that there was top much data, so i decided to narrow down to the fatalities caused my cancers and the most common ones.

Learning how to organise large set of data in Excel:

My examples below: Data sets

Data sets turned into graph using illustrator:

Through research other ways that I could display my data could be through the use of some of the following;

  • ­Bar chart
  • Clustered bar chart Dot plot
  • Connected dot plot 
  • Proportional shape 
  • Bubble chart
  • Radar chart
  • Polar chart
  • Range chart 
  • Box-and-whisker chart 

Video which helped me learn how to create these graphs:

Through the next coming weeks I would like to explore more data and experiment the various ways that I can display the data is and effective visual way to be able to communicate the designated message.

References:

Cancer Institute NSW. (n.d.). All cancers data NSW. [online] Available at: https://www.cancer.nsw.gov.au/cancer-data-pages [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].

Australia, C. (n.d.). [online] Cancer.org.au. Available at: https://www.cancer.org.au [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].

Aph.gov.au. (n.d.). Chapter 2 – Parliament of Australia. [online] Available at: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Funding_for_Research_into_Cancers/FundingResearchCancers/Report/c02 [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].

Canceraustralia.gov.au. (n.d.). Cancer in Australia statistics | Cancer Australia. [online] Available at: https://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/what-cancer/cancer-australia-statistics [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].

YouTube. (2017). Creating Graphs in Adobe Illustrator CC. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk5cjDetViM [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].

YouTube. (2016). Organize Your Data in a Flash with Excel. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Cv2ULpMo4 [Accessed 30 Oct. 2019].