My presentation that I gave at FITC Toronto 2009. It focuses on how we see and introduces the idea of how to design to make your visuals as visually efficient as possible for our brains to see & process.
13. You don’t have to use the data just because it’s there *
14. U.S. Pet Ownership — 2007 Source: American Veterinary Medical Association Dogs Cats Birds Horses Percent of households owning 37.20% 32.40% 3.90% 1.80% Number of households owning 43,021,000 37,460,000 4,453,000 2,087,000 Average number owned per household 1.7 2.2 2.5 3.5 Total number in United States 72,114,000 81,721,000 11,199,000 7,295,000 Veterinary visits per household per year (mean) 2.6 1.7 0.3 2.2 Veterinary expenditure per household per year (mean) $356 $190 $25 $360 Veterinary expenditure per animal (mean) $200 $81 $9 $92
15. U.S. Pet Ownership — 2007 Source: American Veterinary Medical Association Dogs Cats Birds Horses Percent of households owning 37.20% 32.40% 3.90% 1.80% Number of households owning 43,021,000 37,460,000 4,453,000 2,087,000 Average number owned per household 1.7 2.2 2.5 3.5 Total number in United States 72,114,000 81,721,000 11,199,000 7,295,000 Veterinary visits per household per year (mean) 2.6 1.7 0.3 2.2 Veterinary expenditure per household per year (mean) $356 $190 $25 $360 Veterinary expenditure per animal (mean) $200 $81 $9 $92
16. U.S. Pet Ownership (2007) % of Houses Owning Dogs Cats Birds Horses Percent of households owning 37.20% 32.40% 3.90% 1.80% Number of households owning 43,021,000 37,460,000 4,453,000 2,087,000 Average number owned per household 1.7 2.2 2.5 3.5 Total number in United States 72,114,000 81,721,000 11,199,000 7,295,000 Veterinary visits per household per year (mean) 2.6 1.7 0.3 2.2 Veterinary expenditure per household per year (mean) $356 $190 $25 $360 Veterinary expenditure per animal (mean) $200 $81 $9 $92
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71. ... the goal of information design must be to design displays so that visual queries are processed both rapidly and correctly for every important cognitive task the display is intended to support. Colin Ware Visual Thinking for Design
72. Answering the WHERE (Understanding how we search visually)
73. Based on illustration by Colin Ware, Visual Thinking for Design Pattern Testing Eye Movement Move and Scan
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