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When a word is worth a thousand pictures
In signs, one sees an advantage for discovery that is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then, indeed, the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished. Gottfried Leibniz Leibniz’s quotation is prescient on the value of visualization, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. As …
easy = true
here’s a fantastic article on the cognitive fluency and disfluency and its behavioral effects. fluency is just a fancy measure of how easy or hard something is. to grab your interest and fuel your design work, i’ll jot down my key takeaways. i’m saving the brilliant analysis for later. (think of compressibility as a measure …
Chrome experiments
the internet is tomorrow’s operating system. services and data will increasingly migrate to the cloud; real-time rendering will follow. but client-side hardware isn’t dead yet. it’ll be around until and unless we lick network latency for high-performance applications (digital content production, 3D graphics, etc.). therefore, oracle’s seemingly antique vision of a thin-client world is on …
sleight of mind
“Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.”
Genome visualization
Click the image to play a video. Summary Screenshot Downloads My role: designer, developer, researcher
Protein visualization
Click the image to play a video. Summary Publications, Master’s thesis My role: designer, developer, researcher
GiANT, graphical algebraic number theory
Working with fields using drag and drop. Click the image to play a video. Summary Working with fields using drag and drop Talks Papers, source code My role: designer, developer, researcher
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