Loving this site because I wasn’t sure if I was the only person that did stuff like this when I was bored/frustrated at the status quo of information design. Best part is the resulting visual conversation that emerged from the widely acknowledged need for the boarding pass overhaul, which is surprisingly carrier agnostic. I love how the process is revealed from rough sketches to finished design to someone adding the most personal of touches (necessary with a crowded market of identical offerings) below. Via Core77.
I don’t remember which Twitter feed led me to this site but it’s definitely worth spending some time on based on variety alone. When it comes to infographics there are plenty of sites dedicated to them, such as graphjam and flowingdata, but few recognize and acknowledge the legacy of geographic maps, newspapers, and textbooks from which they originate. Little more than visual shorthand for displaying data sets these have become increasingly important as of late due to the scale of data points in the cases of finance and the environment. We all heart it when people get witty (or use super clean graphics) in order to enforce their point though.
I worked with a guy (currently a reformed Human Factors researcher) that conducted a similar study with almost identical results; when it comes to progress meters it’s better that they are somewhat animated in nature as opposed to being relatively static (one color or limited to a soft gradient). Anything that tricks users into thinking that time is elapsing faster than reality works to the advantage of the system’s perceived response time. This study takes things one step further in granularity, looking at specific animations. I do have reservations about the design of the study but at a high level the results are consistent so it’s good enough for me. Via Gizmodo.
About time someone mapped this out in order to explain it to the masses. Unfortunately the details are lost with a digital representation of the chart in question. Purchase one of the 200 print run limited edition here for $45. Via InformationIsBeautiful.
I love how someone mashed these two up. As such I wish I could cite it properly, having come from a random Tumblr site. What makes it wickedly effective is how well the logos scale to each package–it’s seamless enough to make most people do a double take. Anti-Pop Art, anyone?
No idea how long it will take trademark lawyers to catch up with the makers of Fight Club Soap, so get it while you can. I think that Chuck Palahniuk himself would appreciate knowing these were out there, and that they are safe to use. Even if you are going to mount them on your wall, I’m still not sure how anyone feels about paying $25 for a pair of bars of soap. Oh wait, people do it all the time at Ulta, right? Via uncrate
FlowingData has an excellent series of infocharts called Underloadbased on information culled from various sources. In the case of the image above, the blogger maps out Google responses to ‘Life is like….’ Sure, it’s a little bit ‘GraphJam‘ in nature but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Not sure why ‘Highway’ or ‘Board Game’ aren’t even .5 million data points though, suspect sample perhaps?
One of my personal favorite sites, Flowing Data, recently broke down chart types and best practices for each. Also posted are perfect examples for each, broken out into (typically) concise sections. I threw the gif together on a whim….now back to cowering under my desk in all of my nerdiness.
The perfect chart for diagnosing the denizens of the interwebs. Via 
