What is it about?
The article is about the role of designing within information visualisation. Our work combines design with data and computing in collaboration with museums, archives and libraries. We show, through examples, the different roles design plays by making things "real". Instead of design being just a matter of presentation after the key decisions have been taken by humanities scholars and programmers, we show how it can make the designer a co-researcher from the start of a project.
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Why is it important?
The name Digital Humanities implies just two disciplines - computing and the humanities. We show the vital role that Design can play, not just in presenting information but also in enabling new questions to be asked.
Perspectives
All the visualisations we present and discuss in the article emphasise visualisation against Time. This is one of my obsessions: timelines and other graphics are often treated - even by designers - as easy and simple, but their design needs to be seen as subtle and sophisticated, even when the results are very simple.
Stephen Boyd Davis
Royal College of Art
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This page is a summary of: Design as externalization, Information Design Journal, July 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/idj.25.1.03van.
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