The power of effective design is often discussed in the context of “product design” but my friend Dan Roam (and Dr. Tony Jones MD) showed this week how it can be used to potentially save lives. Okay maybe that’s a stretch, but his latest sketches on visualizing the health care debate will definitely help avoid…
Category: visualization
Back of the Napkin
I’ve mentioned Dan Roam’s visual thinking approach here before and you haven’t heard of him you should check him out. Congratulations to Dan on releasing his first book: The Back of the Napkin (available March 13th). He shared a pre-release copy with me in the fall and I must say it is going to be…
Designers… Move to California!
A couple year’s back I commented about the booming job market for interaction designers in the Bay Area. As I try and build out my design team, I’m now acutely aware that the job market is not only as hot as it was in late 2005, it’s actually hotter. As you can tell from the…
The next Edward Tufte?
Dan Roam visited eBay on Thursday to give a workshop on Visual Thinking. I thought I might learn how to produce better charts and diagrams but instead I got a whole new way to think about problems and visualizations. He gave countless examples of how you can discover great data often buried within a 40…
Booming UI Design Market in Bay Area
As I mentioned the other day, I’ve noticed anecdotally noticed that companies are having a difficult time filling their UI and UER positions. So I decided to see if there was any quantifiable evidence which would confirm what I already suspect (if the barrage of recruiting VMs I get is any clue). I realized that…