Category: Good practice
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TEDx talk by Karel van der Waarde
Karel’s TEDx talk is published right on time. It highlights some arguments why the European legislation about medicines information in package leaflets needs to be changed.
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IIID Conversation with Rui Caminha, 1 June 2023, 15:00 UTC
Rui Camilha introduces award-winning legal information design from Villa – Visual Law Studio, in Brazil.
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IIID Conversation with Sheila Pontis, 4 May 2023, 15:00 UTC
Information designers know that they should create solutions that address users’ needs. But while some of us claim to do it all the time, in reality many find it hard to integrate this way of working into our daily practice.
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IIID Conversation with Karel van der Waarde, 6 April 2023, 15:00 UTC
Taking medicines is a stressful activity. Opening a cardboard box, reading a leaflet, handling tiny pills, checking the dosage and the time, and considering potential side-effects require the capacities of a strong, astute, and healthy adult.
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IIID Conversation with Stefania Passera, 2 March 2023, 15:00 UTC
“I have read and understood the terms and conditions” is the biggest lie on the internet – no one reads, and definitely no one understands (except the lawyers).
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Comment on Corona data quality
Comment by Andreas Schneider, Institute for Information Design Japan, on the quality of data provided by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University, basis for the “Corona Navigator” featured in a previous post.
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Corona Virus Navigator – update 2020-03-23
Although we are constantly updating and expanding our visualizations around the developments of the spread of the Corona virus, we are painfully aware of the underlying limitations and the risks of statistical communication.
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Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society
X-Ray Visualization: A Fine Tradition of Visualizing Medical Data – Plus, introducing a new contest for healthcare visualizations.
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The BMJ (British Medical Journal)
Visualising health inequalities—Announcing a new data visualisation competition in healthcare. Given the ubiquity of data in our lives it is perhaps unsurprising that methods to help us understand this rising tide of digits have become increasingly popular.
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COVID-19: numbers in context
Andreas Schneider from IIDj, Institute for Information Design Japan sent this article. Following the development of presentations around the coronavirus evolution we feel obliged to raise our concerns: Numbers are only meaningful if they refer to a known metric – the sum of the identified infections must be reported together with the total number of…