Sessions

Information Design 2025 @ NID Bangalore

Interactive Data Visualization

Book Sketchnote
- Scope: Read a book on interactive data visualisation and create a sketchnote
- Intent: To synthesize the data visulisation on a topic and create a visual summary of the book.
Interaction & Narrative Patterns
- Scope: Find three articles on data visualisation and identify the interaction and narrative patterns used in them. Create a visual summary of the patterns and share it with the class.
- Intent: To practice pattern synthesis and learn from examples the intent and purpose behind the design choices
Mini Project 1 & 2
- Scope: Create Interactive Data-Driven Visualisations on a topic of your choice and make it available on the web
- Intent: To apply all the skills across a project and learn interactive and narrative patterns across these projects via peer critique. Also to get better at using the tools and techniques for creating interactive visualisations.

Three Exercises
- Scope: Create three visualisation in A4 size on three topics – Clothes, Food & Recommendations.
- Intent: To get repetition on the overall process, visualisation design and shared in the class for peer learning.
Book Sketchnote
- Scope: Read a book on data visualisation and create a sketchnote
- Intent: To synthesize the data visulisation on a topic)and create a visual summary of the book.
Critique and Remake
- Scope: Find an article on data visualisation (narrative style) and both remake it and critique it.
- Intent: To practice critical thinking and understand the intent and purpose behind the design of the visualisation. And learn from the remake process to build fluency in data visualisatio tools.
Mini Project
- Scope: Create Longform Narrative Vizualisations, at least static A3 size output on any topic of your choice
- Intent: To apply all the skills across a longer project and learn via peer critique.

Guides

Amit Kapoor: Data Visualisation Resources — A long-list of articles, talks, slide decks, and mini-websites related to data visualisations
Financial Times: Visual Vocabulary - A overview guide to the different types of basic visualisation, categorized by tasks

Articles & References

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface — A paper on the principles of designing effective information software, with a focus on the use of graphical interfaces to convey information.
Distill: Communicating with Interactive Articles — An article on the intent and development of interactive articles, with a focus on data driven communication.
Visualizing Thought — Show how visual communication works and how the design of them as a diagram helps create meaning.
Chakradhar: Composing with Visual Devices - A look at fundamental principles of visual composition`
Franconeri et al.: The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works — A comprehensive review of how cognitive science and visual perception principles can be applied to design more effective, accurate, and memorable data visualizations
Koponen & Hilden: The Data Visualization Handbook — The first chapter available online is a short and example rich introduction to intent and purpose behind data visualisation.
Jonathan Schwabish: An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data — The journal article provides good examples and practical guidelines of how to create great, effective visualisation for the academic audience.

Videos

Data Visualisation Resources — amitkaps.com/data-visualisation-resources
Alberto Cairo: Open Visualisation Academy — A new & free video oriented knowledge base about information design, data visualisation and data literacy

Information Design 2025 @ NID Bangalore