Visualizing crime reporting behavior of victims of unlawful police violence in Germany

As my final work for my bachelor's degree in communication design, I created a website explaining unlawful police violence and visualizing the first results of KviAPol, a research project doing a study on this topic. I want to share my design process, which of course wasn’t this defined set of steps but more a constant back and forth between them.

Finding a topic

The hardest thing about a thesis is figuring out what the thesis will be about. I remember I was already worrying about it when I was just starting university. During the course of my studies, I found myself always picking the classes related to digital mediums. And there, in particular, data visualization got my attention. I’ve been impressed by how data journalism can map out a table with numbers into an explorable and emotional story. …