WIF 2008 - webdesign international festival - France

The German magazine online smashingmagazine.com goes back over the 7 visual approaches -the most modern ones and most current- of data on the web.

The presentation of data and of figures are often very conventional (tables, histograms, circular graphs and other pie charts) … but it is possible to give more life to the figures and to send a message to the readers in a more effective way. And that, thanks to a design touch. The Visualization design.

The article redraws the 7 types of the most original and creative presentations, classified by categories as follows :

1. Mindmaps
2. Displaying News
3. Displaying Data
4. Displaying connections
5. Displaying web-sites
6. Articles & Resources
7. Tools and Services