Data Visualization Design Practice
Data visualization design is becoming increasingly popular as a professional role. To promote the growth and sustainability of design professions, it is important for both research and education to have a good understanding of how designers think and do their work in practice. While visualization researchers have made a significant number of contributions regarding visualization design models, processes, and frameworks, most of this work has taken place in research rather than practice settings.
In this line of research, we take a practice-led approach to studying data visualization design, attempting to expand scholarly inquiry beyond research settings into settings of everyday design practice. Topics under investigation include what kinds of design processes visualization practitioners follow, what kinds of strategies and methods they use, what cognitive processes and structures they rely on, and how they generate and use forms of design knowledge.
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2023
How visualization designers’ assumptions can mislead in communicating with visualizations Conference Forthcoming
6th annual Workshop on Visualization Communication (VisComm ’23) at IEEE VIS, Forthcoming.
Preparing Future Data Visualization Designers for Professional Practice Conference Forthcoming
IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (EduVis ’23), Forthcoming.
Design Cognition in Data Visualization Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Chen, Min; Szafir, Danielle Albers; Borgo, Rita; Padilla, Lace; Edwards, Darren J.; Fisher, Brian (Ed.): vol. Visualization Psychology, Springer, Forthcoming.
2022
Considering the Role of Guidelines in Visualization Design Practice Workshop
4th IEEE Workshop on Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education (VisGuides ’22), 2022.
Negotiating visualization minimalism: a preliminary analysis of Twitter conversations Workshop
in IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm ’22), 2022.
2021
Understanding Data Visualization Design Practice Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS ’21), vol. 28, no. 1, 2021.
Fixation and Creativity in Data Visualization Design: Experiences and Perspectives of Practitioners Conference
IEEE VIS Conference, Short Papers, 2021.
2020
How do Visualization Designers Think? Design Cognition as a Core Aspect of Visualization Psychology Workshop
IEEE VIS 2020 Workshop on Visualization Psychology (VisPsych), 2020.
Data Visualization Practitioners’ Perspectives on Chartjunk Conference
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), short papers, 2020.
Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice Conference
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), short papers, 2020.
What Design Methods do DataVis Practitioners Know and Use? Conference
Extended Abstracts of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI LBW), ACM, Honolulu, HI, 2020.
2018
Toward an Analysis of Practitioner-Oriented Resources for Visualization Design Conference
IEEE VIS ’18: Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Conference on Information Visualization, Poster Abstracts, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
2016
Design of Visualizations for Human-Information Interaction: A Pattern-Based Framework Journal Article
In: Synthesis Lectures on Visualization, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1–185, 2016, ISSN: 2159-516X.