Martin Krzywinski's keynote from 1st BiVi in 2014. He discusses visual design principles and communicating effectively in pictures.
This talk distills core concepts of information design into practical guidelines for creating scientific figures. We will explain how to generate visual vocabularies with graphical elements, combine them into phrases, and package them into a complete figure, the visual equivalent of a paragraph. We show how effective designs for this composition are underpinned by conclusions from studies in visual perception and awareness.
Bruno Sobral demonstrates how collaboration with the bench scientists to learn about their needs, uses and challenges can lead to design of more effective resources for data exploration and analysis. He emphasises the importance of designing in a user-centric manner and highlights the importance of human-computer interface professionals in the design process.
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Martin Krzywinski (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/) gives a great primer on the key principles of effective visual design in biological sciences. During the talk he highlights the principles with examples from various peer-reviewed publications and discusses the practical aspects of effective figure design.
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