ISTA 2015 Recap | Time for Software to Grow Up Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Fri, Jan 15, 2016 On 19 November, 2015 I spoke at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. My presentation, “ Design, Usability and Complex Systems ”, centered on the...
Making Big Data Useful: Design, UX and Innovation Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Oct 12, 2015 On October 23-24, 2015 I’ve been invited to speak at the User Centered Design (UCD) conference held annually in London. This is a more interesting conference than most (to me) because the talks center...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 5 – From Wrong to Right Tobias Komischke / Fri, Aug 29, 2014 Here’s a cool data viz story. A large weekly magazine in Europe has recently published some statistics about Ebola cases in four African countries. It’s in German, but bear with me here. Per country...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 4 – The Experiment Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 19, 2013 Visualizing data instead of presenting them as ASCII in lists or tables makes sense because we’re much better in processing graphical than numerical data (the so-called pictorial superiority effect)....
UX @ DevWeek 2013 Tobias Komischke / Thu, Mar 7, 2013 It’s DevWeek! The London Barbican Centre hosts the UK’s largest developer conference. Close to 600 developers are here - and so are we. Infragistics is represented with a booth and we’ve had a lot of...
Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 3 – What is this??? Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jun 18, 2012 Recently, TIME magazine published this info graphic about top-earning movies. It’s kinda interesting. I spent much more time looking at this than I normally would have. So by that definition, the graphic...
“Pie charts kill people” vs. “We want pie charts!” Tobias Komischke / Fri, Aug 12, 2011 Last month at the Human-Computer Interaction International conference in Orlando, I came across some interesting research results. The be honest, the only reason why I paid attention to those was that...
New Book Announcement: Microsoft Silverlight: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Fri, Jun 24, 2011 I am currently finishing up working on a book with a few other Infragistics coworkers (and one other person outside of Infragistics) about designing and implementing Enterprise Dashboards using Silverlight...