Polls And Surveys

How text visualization can help in understanding politics. — Design has always been affected by politics. Take the example of Robert Moses, an urban planner from the 1930’s who notoriously designed bridges and archways that restricted access to public vehicles to certain areas of New York City that disproportionally affected minorities. There are several instances throughout history leading up…

Designing interactivity that enhances the experience of watching a live show. GLANCE makes lockscreen more delightful Glance, an ecosystem on its own has a lot to offer. …

Over the past few years, the use of websites, polls, and surveys has become excessive and disruptive yielding valuable feedback. The reality is many people are annoyed by them. However, there aren’t many ways to capture real-time responses while the customer is shopping, subscribing, or just browsing a site. Data…

Tresa Undem teaches me about how important context is. — To some degree, I’ve always looked at poll results as interesting but not totally conclusive. I think a lot of times they feel like a big picture, but also too broad. To a stat like, “One-third of adults still sleep with a comfort object,” I feel like it draws a…

The closer we get to election day the more the see saw news headlines bounce. Democrats are up, no, wait, Republicans are closing in. The reality is polling is in deep crisis as alarmingly low level of responses, increased difficulties in modeling the electorate, and massive distrust of the media…

Polling is needed on many occasions. In this modern era, we have many applications and websites to use to collect polls, unlike the traditional way people used. People used to collect papers or make holes on papers to do polling, but now we don’t really need any paper no more…