What readers have to say…

“Straight away, you can tell this is a labour of love – the enthusiasm and validity with which the authors describe elements from the three elements of theory, academia and practice really shine through. With backgrounds covering all three of these areas, it makes for a complete publication, full of examples not just from practical situations as a practitioner, but from theory – focusing in particular on theory of presentation, psychology, conversation and cognition. All things which influence creation of functional and aesthetic dashboards, most of which, like me, you probably hadn’t considered in requisite depth until now…”

— Neil Richards, four-time Tableau Visionary and Director of Viz For Social Good. Full review available on Goodreads.

Check out our latest podcast!

How can we use beauty to convey meaning and form to guide function in our communications? Checkout this Storytelling With Data podcast, where we explore these questions with Mike Cisneros.

Book-inspired research

We continue to explore important research questions in the space of functional aesthetics. Check out our accepted VIS paper that explores how readers integrate text with charts.