3iap helps clients design and develop effective, persuasive interfaces between busy people and their messy data.
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3iap's approach to data design is outcome-driven and deeply rooted in research. Effective use of data doesn't need trillion-neuron models or MoMA-worthy graphics, it just needs to work for the people who use it.
The essays below highlight our favorite examples of empirically effective data design. They include findings from our own work and others, each with a different lens on the surprising ways that data can make a difference.
Through a partisan lens: How politics overrides information.
A political psychology primer for information designers.
Unfair Comparisons: How Visualizing Social Inequality Can Make It Worse
Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce...
Timely Advice: How long does dataviz take?
Visualizing 3iap timesheets for 10 dataviz client projects. How much time goes into researching, data...
What can go wrong?
Exploring racial equity dataviz and deficit thinking, with Pieta Blakely.
“Dispersion & Disparity” Research Project Results
How masking uncertainty encourages stereotyping when visualizing social outcome disparities
Dashboard Psychology: Effective Feedback in Data Design
The psychology behind “what you measure you improve”...
Radical Dots Simulator: Visualizing Agent Belief Change
Visualizing extreme belief formation, echo chambers, polarization, and attitude latitudes.
Visualizing Expectations
Understanding the psychology and impact of expectation-setting and information design.
Good Dashboards Inform. Great Dashboards Align.
Dashboards don't have to be data dumpsters. At their best, great dashboards are a monument to what matters...
Motivational Data Visualization
Exploring the motivational impacts of 7 user-data visualizations in everyday products and services.
Goal Setting: “Measurable” shouldn't mean “Miserable”
A quick exercise for defining “measurable” OKRs
Winning at @ratemyskyperoom
In these uncertain times, the world needs hard-hitting data journalism now more than ever. This is not...
Settling the Debate: Bars vs Lollipops (vs Dot Plots)
Results of testing Bars, Lollipops and Dot Plots with 150 Mechanical Turkers for accuracy, preference...
Lemonade & Human-Centered KPIs
How to set team KPIs that won't cost your lemonade stand $3B in fines. 5 principles for designing inspiring...
Americans struggle with Graphs
When communicating data to 'the public,' how simple does it need to be? How much complexity can people...
"What is this chart trying to tell you?"
Crucial questions to ask when user testing data visualizations.
Work samples we're proud of:
Below are a few project examples.
Nightingale Magazine - Absurd Print Editorial Visualizations
Five data visualization designs supporting a printed magazine article.
World Government Summit Dataviz: Twenty-Nine Years of Hot Air
An overview of cumulative greenhouse gas emissions. Shortlist finalist for the World Dataviz Prize.
Ugandan Survey Research Project: Data Exploration Tool Design
Data visualization, information design, and product design for a leading market research firm.
Temple University: Public Health Policy Dataset Discovery and Exploration
Data visualization, information design, Open Data discovery and UI/UX for Temple's LawAtlas.
Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials Data Visualization
Data Visualization Design and Exploration Tool Development for a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Firm
Designing Approachable, Self-Serve People Analytics
Data Visualization, Presentation and Dashboard Design
Graphicacy: Polling Data Timeseries Dataviz Development
Survey Data Visualization Development with Graphicacy
Doom Haikus: Machine Learning, Poetry and Despair
Developing a dataset and data explorer for machine summarization and haiku language models
StreetLinx: Organizational X-Ray Vision for Securities Counterparties
Data Product Design and Development for StreetLinx
3d Clothing Rendering Pipeline
Developing a pattern-to-pants graphics pipeline
PwC: Productizing a Workforce Performance Analytics Service
Motivational Analytics Consulting, Data Product Design and MVP Development for Pw
Personalized Fitness Dataviz for Consumer Health-Tracking
Data Visualization, Product Design and MVP Development for notch.me
