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.
Parsons, Paul
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.
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Parsons, Paul; Shukla, Prakash
Considering the Role of Guidelines in Visualization Design Practice Workshop
4th IEEE Workshop on Visualization Guidelines in Research, Design, and Education (VisGuides ’22), 2022.
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Shukla, Prakash; Parsons, Paul
Negotiating visualization minimalism: a preliminary analysis of Twitter conversations Workshop
in IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm ’22), 2022.
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Parsons, Paul
Understanding Data Visualization Design Practice Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. VIS ’21), vol. 28, no. 1, 2021.
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doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114959},
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Parsons, Paul; Shukla, Prakash; Park, Chorong
Fixation and Creativity in Data Visualization Design: Experiences and Perspectives of Practitioners Conference
IEEE VIS Conference, Short Papers, 2021.
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Parsons, Paul
How do Visualization Designers Think? Design Cognition as a Core Aspect of Visualization Psychology Workshop
IEEE VIS 2020 Workshop on Visualization Psychology (VisPsych), 2020.
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Parsons, Paul; Shukla, Prakash
Data Visualization Practitioners’ Perspectives on Chartjunk Conference
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), short papers, 2020.
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doi = {10.1109/VIS47514.2020.00049},
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Parsons, Paul; Gray, Colin M.; Baigelenov, Ali; Carr, Ian
Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice Conference
IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), short papers, 2020.
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Parsons, Paul; Hung, Ya-Hsin; Baigelenov, Ali; Schrank, Connor
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.
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Parsons, Paul; Hung, Ya-Hsin; Baigelenov, Ali
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.
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abstract = {Numerous online resources for supporting visualization design have been developed in recent years. Although many have become popular among practitioners, they have not received systematic analysis in the visualization literature. Here we present an initial analysis, focusing on one subset of online practitioner-oriented resources—namely, resources that aid in choosing visualization techniques based on a designer’s communicative intent. We report the results of a comprehensive search for such resources, and discuss findings of an analysis based on multiple characteristics including communicative intent. Finally, we discuss future research directions.},
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Sedig, Kamran; Parsons, Paul
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.
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