Jesse James Garrett

I chose to write about Jesse James Garrett because, frankly, I do quite a bit of UI/UX work and I wasn't familiar with him or The Elements of User Experience. The graphic below was featured in our reading and I found it interesting for several reasons:It's an informative…

Subtleties of Color

I'm starting writing having completed the video and before reading through the blog posts. I loved the video. Robert Simmon manages to disrupt so much of what I though I knew about color. Like him, I'm not a color expert but his approach to the use of color - the…

Profiles in Badness

Having just researched and written about Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence I have an immediate sense of relief reading the opening paragraph of this essay. This statement, particularly, resonated with me - "The graphs you make are meant to be looked at by someone. The effectiveness of any particular graph is…

Rubber Sheet and Isosurfaces

DescriptionsRubber Sheethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubbersheetingLike a heat map but used to map four or more dimensions through the use of a colored, three dimensional surface.Isosurfaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsosurfaceMap of data that resemble topographic maps. An isosurface is a three-dimensional analog of an isoline. It…