Comments on: A periodic table of visualization methods http://caitlingannon.com/2007/01/30/a-periodic-table-of-visualization-methods/ notes on user experience design for the web Tue, 18 May 2010 13:48:00 -0600 hourly 1 By: caitlin gannon » The Periodic Table as a Design Paradigm http://caitlingannon.com/2007/01/30/a-periodic-table-of-visualization-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-462 caitlin gannon » The Periodic Table as a Design Paradigm Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:43:57 +0000 http://caitlingannon.com/index.php/?p=22#comment-462 [...] See also: Periodic Table of Visualization Methods [...] [...] See also: Periodic Table of Visualization Methods [...]

]]> By: admin http://caitlingannon.com/2007/01/30/a-periodic-table-of-visualization-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-183 admin Thu, 24 May 2007 00:51:17 +0000 http://caitlingannon.com/index.php/?p=22#comment-183 <p>http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=81 writes:</p> <p><blockquote>The periodic table of elements, unlike this table that was modeled after it, is quite effective in design. It works because its organization reflects the meaningful attribute of each element’s atomic number (the number of protons in the elements atomic nucleus). The two-character abbreviations that it uses to label each element work because they are the standard abbreviations that are used by scientists. This new periodic table of visualization methods, however, exhibits no such organizing principle. What is the point of doing an entire research project to force a list of visualization methods into a paradigm that doesn’t fit it? Apart from breaking the visualization methods into general categories (information visualization, concept visualization, etc.), this table exhibits no useful organization.</blockquote></p> <p>See also:<br /> http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=188&lang=2</p> http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/?p=81 writes:

<blockquote>The periodic table of elements, unlike this table that was modeled after it, is quite effective in design. It works because its organization reflects the meaningful attribute of each element’s atomic number (the number of protons in the elements atomic nucleus). The two-character abbreviations that it uses to label each element work because they are the standard abbreviations that are used by scientists. This new periodic table of visualization methods, however, exhibits no such organizing principle. What is the point of doing an entire research project to force a list of visualization methods into a paradigm that doesn’t fit it? Apart from breaking the visualization methods into general categories (information visualization, concept visualization, etc.), this table exhibits no useful organization.</blockquote>

See also:
http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=188&lang=2

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