Gretchen Chern | Design Research & Strategy

Environmental Infographics in Honor of Earth Day

In hon­or of Earth Day this past week­end, here are a few envi­ron­men­tal info­graph­ics cour­tesy of GOOD. Info­graph­ic: Why Don’t Amer­i­cans Recy­cle?.Just half of Amer­i­cans recy­cle dai­ly, and 13 per­cent don’t recy­cle at all. Most peo­ple rec­og­nize the ben­e­fits of recy­cling, but they’re often not sure which items can be recy­cled and find the process […]

Infographic Design Rules

Late­ly, I’ve come across quite a few arti­cles about info­graph­ic design — deter­min­ing whether or not it is overused and dis­cussing prop­er usage. Here are two arti­cles and my favorite take­aways: The Do’s And Don’ts Of Info­graph­ic Design from Smash­ing Mag­a­zine. Show, Don’t Tell — A rule of cin­e­ma is to show, don’t tell. The […]

Texting While Driving Infographics

Idea Visu­al­iza­tion The first phase of this research project involved col­lect­ing var­i­ous sta­tis­tics relat­ed to tex­ting while dri­ving. After rec­og­niz­ing pat­terns in the data, our team clas­si­fied the infor­ma­tion into seman­ti­cal­ly appro­pri­ate visu­al mod­els that show rela­tion­ships with mul­ti­vari­ate data. These visu­al mod­els were pre­sent­ed in a poster.

Sir Ken Robinson + RSA Animate

This is a great visu­al­iza­tion of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk from my pre­vi­ous post Bring on the Learn­ing Rev­o­lu­tion!

Idea Visualization: sketch vs. prototype

So far in all my class­es, pro­fes­sors have con­stant­ly said things like “just idea viz it up!” My inter­nal response was always some­thing like, “what the hell does that even mean?!” So, here it is – my first group attempt at real­ly idea vizzing it up!