Designing data-intensive applications — advice for interaction designers

The useful part

The things on the screen вЂ" numbers, tables, graphs, forms, dashboards вЂ" are just two-dimensional projections of a multi-dimensional data landscape. That data landscape in turn is just a representation of real-world phenomena and domain concepts. The design practices will help you “see through” the product surface into the data and domain layers, and re-orient your work aroundВ them.

How it works

• Obviously, I had to learn a lot of new technical skills вЂ" but I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by how much this has taught me about design.
• I’ve distilled these lessons into 10 suggestions вЂ" not a comprehensive canon, but hard-earned and hopefully useful for fellow designers tackling similar challenges.
• Both reinforcing things I already knew, and highlighting blind spots in my design practice.