Matthew Kay @mjskay.com 路 Jul 3

These are the design guidelines I teach. From halfway through this deck: www.mjskay.com/presentation... These days (for academic vis) I'd add "ensure natural visual operations correspond to meaningful operations in data space". Need to make slides for that.

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Andy Cotgreave 路 Jul 3

Treat attributes like adjectives. That's such a good way to say it. Bravo!

Carlos Scheidegger 路 Jul 4

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Rob Davies 路 Jul 10

Very handy, thanks for sharing

Matthew Kay 路 Jul 3

1. Match effectiveness with importance Pick the most perceptually effective encodings for your data. This is not a hard rule - other considerations (visual metaphor, audience familiarity, etc) will intercede, but it's often a good place to start design iteration from.