Designing with Data :: Chris Pelsor + Angela Morelli

We hosted an evening at NITH with two talks on the role of data in design.

Chris Pelsor, Senior Solution Architect at Adobe Systems in Norway, spoke on "Hidden Visualizations: Using Data to Drive Design". He asked whether data, which is usually visualised after the fact in order to be understood, could instead drive automated personalisation, and outlined strategies that combine A/B and multivariate testing with conventional data collection.

Angela Morelli, an information designer working with European research organisations including the Knowledge Centre in Oslo, and a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, presented "Water science made visual". She described how an interest in water science led her to explain it through visual narratives, and the difficulties of making the largely invisible data of everyday water consumption understandable.

Speakers

• Chris Pelsor, Senior Solution Architect, Adobe Systems (Norway) — Hidden Visualizations: Using Data to Drive Design
• Angela Morelli, Information designer; visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins and KhiO — Water science made visual

The original event page is on meetup.com.