by Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, and Vadim Ogievetsky, Stanford University The goal of visualization is to aid our understanding of data by leveraging the human visual system’s highly tuned ability to see patterns, spot trends, and identify outliers. Well-designed visual representations can replace cognitive calculations with simple perceptual inferences and improve comprehension, memory, and decision [...]

Lucy Mcrae surprise us with those amazing and inspiring pieces of futuristic art. She straddles the world of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect her work inherently fascinates with the human body. www.lucymcrae.blogspot.com Chlorophyll Skin Chlorophyll Skin from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

These inspiring ideas are fun yet effective and human. Such an inspiring way to engage with people. Piano stairs The world’s deepest bin Bin addict

Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.

Frog Design Frog Associate Creative Director Scott Nazarin and Senior Interaction Designer Kevin Hutchinson sharing their marvel comic-like representation of the future of media. (illustration by Nick Dragotta, photo by Rod Graves). www.designmind.frogdesign.com www.designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/ Microsoft vision sustainability futures Productivity Vision by Microsoft Hussein Chalayan Dynamic architecture by David Fisher Future clothes in the year 2083 [...]

This is a very interesting analogy by Michael Roller www.michaelroller.com The Evangelist A design team without a visionary leader is like a church without a preacher. The Evangelist focuses on design at the highest level, developing strategies and processes that push the limits of design and business as a whole. Contextual thinking helps him understand [...]