I dutifully opened my census form tonight and began to fill it out. It was straightforward until I got to my children. What race are they? Dad is white, mother’s family is from India/Pakistan. I think of how many friends I know that have kids in the same boat. How do you count them? Me? I ended up marking other and wrote in “mixed.” That just seems weird. How odd will race be to classify in 2020? What about 2050?
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Dec 09
Visual Junk
I’m not sure I understand Digg Labs. I’ve tried, multiple times, to use the data visualizations and interfaces. It’s probably pretty cool to be in Digg headquarters with a bunch of flat screens with these things running all the time. I’m not sure how useful they are otherwise.
Of course, it’s easy to bash without some alternative. I guess I’d ask Digg this — what was the design brief for each of these visualizations? Who are the users? What problems are you solving for them?
In absence of that guidance, I can make a few assumptions. Maybe I can mock up a few visualizations that are more useful.