Do graphs and charts need to be accessible?

Charts and graphs are a good example of where making content accessible is not always the same as making an image itself accessible.

tempertemper Web Design

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🦖🦴 Watch over 150 million years of #fossil evidence from around the world in this #data viz from the American Museum of Natural #History. You can see when and where #dinosaurs appeared on #Earth as the continents shifted from the Late Triassic onward.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/every-dinosaur-fossil-known-to-science-data-visualization-amnh-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=dino-fossils-amnh

#animals #birds #cretaceous #dataviz #fossils #informationdesign #jurassic #maps #nature #paleontology #pangea #science #spinosaurus #titanosaur #triassic #trex #tksst #video

🦖🦴 Watch over 150 million years of #fossil evidence from around the world in this #data viz from the American Museum of Natural #History. You can see when and where #dinosaurs appeared on #Earth as the continents shifted from the Late Triassic onward.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/every-dinosaur-fossil-known-to-science-data-visualization-amnh-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=new_content&utm_content=dino-fossils-amnh

#animals #birds #cretaceous #dataviz #fossils #informationdesign #jurassic #maps #nature #paleontology #pangea #science #spinosaurus #titanosaur #triassic #trex #tksst #video

sankeys, instant progress dashboards based on disparate data sources that update themselves -- the visual display of information I've always designed, spent days fighting excel or another analytics package to create, and ultimately failing at ... now they're a 15 minute job in Claude Code (plus a 30 minute audit to make sure the analysis is done accurately).

#DataVisualization #InformationDesign

Liveuamap: Guerre e Information Design, il monitoraggio dei conflitti moderni

monitorare zone di guerra, crisi umanitarie o proteste globali in tempo reale

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The purpose of information design is to assist thinking.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

#Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #InformationDesign

#Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa

@TaliaRinger I love this! This is one of the references that Edward Tufte has in his books about information design!

#InformationDesign #dataviz

Density vs. Clarity: The Core Tension in Modern UI Design, by @webdesignerdepot.bsky.social:

https://webdesignerdepot.com/density-vs-clarity-the-core-tension-in-modern-ui-design/

#design #informationdesign #minimalism #comparisons #figma

Density vs. Clarity: The Core Tension in Modern UI Design

Modern UI design is torn between two opposing forces: clarity and density. Minimalism promised calm, but often hides complexity—while dense interfaces like Figma or Notion prove chaos can be "beautifully organized". This piece dives into the uncomfortable truth every designer faces: when does clarity stop helping and start dumbing things down?

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