Eric has been working as a web designer for the last seven years in Sydney, Australia.
He joined a small web design firm in 2002 and quickly became the lead designer. Over the next five years he helped the company grow to over 15 employees, working with many clients ranging from small community websites to large international brands.
For the last two years he has been working with a large Australian media company focusing on editorial and information design.
Read a deconstruction of the relaunched CNN site. The new site sports new index pages, story pages and a strong focus on ‘popularity’ with the News Pulse section.
This amazing project on Cali produced by the newspaper El Pais, contains video, galleries, maps and infographics. While a great immersive experience for the user, this won’t be the future for all online news as the production cost and time would never make it viable.
This TED talk by Hans Rosling is an excellent example of how powerful data and good story telling can explain more in 20 minutes than words, photos, multimedia or video could ever hope too. Hans uses data with the Gapminder system in a presentation to burst myths about the developing world and prove that the developing world is not who you think it is.
How is the role of traditional journalism changing as more easy to use raw data sets become available for free online, allowing a greater range of users to data mine the content? 10,000 Words have a good introduction to some of the changes and implications.
Over the past 9 months Andy Rutledge has been composing a series of articles on the Gestalt Principles of Perception. Andy’s articles are well written, easy to read and demonstrate the principles clearly with good examples on how they relate to web design. These are the principles that many designers use, even if they are not aware of it; they are well worth the time to read if you are new to design or just looking for a refresher (also see part 2, 3, 4 and 5).
‘CreativeMornings‘ is a monthly morning gathering of creative types in New York. Each event includes a 10 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The New York Times’ Khoi Vinh recently spoke about his early life as a designer and the lessons that he learnt.
Designers Prem Krishnamurthy and Rob Giampietro talk about their online design of Tablet Magazine, and the different places they found inspiration to shape the design. Interestingly, during the audio slide show, you get a quick look at the intial three directions they took.
Khoi Vinh has linked to a great redesign walkthrough of the new NPR.org site. It is a beautiful piece of video that proves that even somthing like an introduction to a redesign can have a nice narrated story.
We all know that data can tell different stories depending on how you spin it and the way data is visually represented can lead to assumptions by the viewer.
With Swine flu so prevalent in the world news at the moment, its only natural that there be some maps featured on news sites telling how the virus has spread across the globe.