Thesis Modules

Conclusion

Discussion and Future Directions

This thesis explores the hypothesis that designers, as visual representation specialists, can catalyze novel moments of insight for researchers by visualizing, translating, distilling, and interpreting abstract data or models…

Visual Concept Models

Higher Resolution Design Process and Thinking

The Importance

Current popular models of the design process, although useful, do not accurately capture the sophistication and complexity of design…

Components

All the things

Case Study 0: Seeds of Visualization Design

Meta Skills

Visualization, Translation, Distillation, and Interpretation

In other chapters I will refer to these meta-skills, which I consider to be the highest level skills which a visualization designer possesses and deploys in their work. I consider…

Location, Color, and Form

Perception, Cognition, and Intuition

Location

Case Study Prime: MERLIN

Recursively Evolving Toward More Sophisticated Data Exploration

Impostering, Scientifically

A New Way for Designers to Be

Literature

In my review, I discuss findings from four separate but overlapping fields: human-computer interaction, cognitive psychology, design studies, and visualization…

Territory, not Problem Space

Where I am, What I am Doing, and Why It Matters

Where I am

My Not Problem Statement

For the work of this thesis, I firmly reject the framing of a problem space. A problem…

My Practice

Recursive Visualization Design

Evolution

In case study 0, I talked about my past practice of making medical visualizations for doctors and researchers. I view the approach to designing that I have now to be a direct and logical…