We’ve learned the nine principles of how to make effective visualizations and applied it into our exercises.
Today I’d like to share what I have learned from aesthetics session and how important that is to understand human perception when it comes to creating a good visualizations.
Bellow questions can answer the aesthetic lecture in different angle.
- Does it meet physical attributes of vision? Our vision sensitively recognizes length, position, size, shape and color of views. Those determines how we think and how we decide. Sometimes pie charts, donut charts can’t fully represents the attributes of vision. Understanding attributes of our visions can help us to have better design when it comes to visualization.
- Does eyes can discern and brains can understand? First our eyes see and then our brain understand. If the visualization is not easy to understand, not clearly indicates the relationship of the data then our brain can hardly understand what we see.
- Does our seeing In-Balance with our thinking? In class professor taught eye beats memory principles. Our brain has limitation of working memory. If what we see is not balance with what we thinking then the visualization can’t convey the accurate message that it suppose to deliver.
Reference
Data Visualization for Human Perception