Event overview
Sven Laqua gives an overview of how Digital Science create data visualisations for online and print publication.
In the last few years, the field of data visualisation has outgrown the context of niche tools, expert users and boring financial presentations. Today, data visualisations are increasingly used by all parts of a business - from the use of infographics in marketing to interactive dashboards in software products.
In this guest lecture, Sven Laqua (Head of user experience, Digital Science) provides an overview of how data visualisations are used at Digital Science - within the software products we build as well as in other contexts such as for print publication purposes. He will focus on the overall process involved - from the original brief, the various challenges along the way, to the final visualisation solutions being shipped.
BIOGRAPHY
Sven Laqua is Head of User Experience at Digital Science. He’s getting his hands dirty with all things UX – be it user requirements, IA, interaction design, visual design, information visualization, prototyping or user testing. Sven’s also tasked with shaping a UX strategy for Digital Science.
In his previous life in academia, Sven worked at UCL evaluating serious games and designing and prototyping an in-car personalized information discovery system. During his PhD research at UCL, he designed & built web-based and corporate level prototypes for personalized information discovery and exploration. For 2 years, he collaborated with CA Labs, of CA Technologies, to design and implement KnowDis – a knowledge discovery tool for organizations. He also worked extensively with eye-tracking technologies – on evaluations, metrics, algorithms and building prototypes, which enable users to navigate information spaces by eye-gaze.
Dates & times
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20 Nov 2015 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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