Data Visualization
Improvement on DMV Chart
Company: Case study of how public safety information could serve the public better.
Role: Content strategist, illustrator, UI designer.
DMV Chart
When The California Department of Motor Vehicles mails you a form to renew your car's registration, this lovely chart is included in the envelope.
Issues with this graphic:
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The color contrast is not accessible for vision-impaired users.
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Users must work too hard to separate the men’s and women’s data.
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Body weight is what the user needs to find first, but it is buried.
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Users will likely not read the chart because it is too crowded.
Process: In Excel, I divided up the women's and men's data from the DMV because they were too difficult to understand in one table.
I selected the men's data, tried many of Excel's native chart types, copied my favorite chart into Illustrator, then adjusted fonts, colors, patterns, and hierarchies.
Next, I tested color contrast using the WAVE Chrome extension. Now a user can easily find their weight and its associated data. I referenced Steven Few and WCAG for best practices in data visualization & accessibility.
Meeting Room Components
Company: 8x8 is a cloud communications company that sells SaaS software as well as hardware, like the room computer in this case.
Role: Visual Designer on the web marketing team, helping out the product marketing team.
Process: A requester wanted to display on the web site a mashup of clip art to show how meeting room components worked together. I drew, scaled and labeled everything to align to our brand guidelines.
