Category Archives: Design

Work that comes under the design category.

World Cup Mobile Text Traffic

During the World Cup O2 were tracking the amount of text message data sent during the England matches. Not all messages sent during this time were solely about the game, but you can clearly see on the graphs below when something happened worth talking about there was a definite spike in traffic.
For example, on the first […]

Post Details Posted June 30, 2010 at 9:22 pm By Dave | 2 Comments

How big is the USA?

The first draft of this visualisation was created in about 8 hours before the deadline for USA by Designers expired, on the day before I had to move out of my house and before I’d started any packing! So, to say I was rushed, stressed, and clock watching is a HUGE understatement.
What’s shown below is the […]

Post Details Posted March 5, 2010 at 11:01 pm By Dave | Also posted in DTN Lab | Tagged as , , , , , , , | 0 Comments

Buzz Tracker

This week I’ve been working on a sweet new data visualisation that aggregates opinion from twitter for a specfic event or set of topics. All week it’s been evolving, growing in ability and scope and I think it’s about time it deserved a little mention on DTN.
I’m not going into too much detail right now […]

Post Details Posted February 19, 2010 at 4:37 am By Dave | Also posted in DTN Lab, Programming | 1 Comment

Project storyboard

One of the mandatory requirements of this project is a story/information board to explain the what why and how of the project. Instead of just having something informative but separate, I’ve thought about placing it on the reverse side of the visualisation posters. This way there’s a little project information included with each piece so […]

Post Details Posted May 28, 2008 at 6:27 pm By Dave | Also posted in Exercise, Research | 3 Comments

Supplement packaging prototypes

Instead of just having posters up for sale and available, I’ve been thinking about how I would round off the project, and go about getting the posters (and the knowledge that they exist) out and available to wider audiences. As far as the internet is concerned, this page and the project can get stumbled, dugg, […]

Post Details Posted May 27, 2008 at 5:46 pm By Dave | Also posted in DTN Lab, Research | Tagged as , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Outdoor pictogram headlines

Just thinking that it might be nice to see these pictogram headlines concepts I did adopted into a functioning platform for use in public spaces, and perhaps even incorporated into a news website.
The idea would be that a simple application would pull headlines from the BBC News website, or any website, and seperate the headline into […]

Post Details Posted May 9, 2008 at 11:34 am By Dave | Also posted in Thoughts | Tagged as , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments