A Practical Guide to Designing with Data

Who should read this book?

If you’ve ever been asked to produce a chart or graph, you should read this book. If you’re a researcher, designer, developer, UX designer, IA, product owner or web app owner you can get a lot out of this book and take your visualisations to the next level.

To put it in the real world, you could use this book for:

Designing web app dashboards

Presenting research

Visualising user activity in your web app or service

Designing complex user relationships

Creating accurate, thought-provoking presentations

Enriching your web app or service with data visualisations

If you can master the basics, then more complex designs become easier to create. In this book, you’ll learn to design charts that focus on the data, avoiding unnecessary distractions and not mis-representing the information to the readers.

This book is a practical guide to designing with data. By the end of this book, you will have a firm grasp on the types of charts, which are best at representing different types of data and how to tell your story in a beautifully elegant way.