Designing for Others who are “Different”.
We must ask new questions when challenged to design for people we don’t understand and often we don’t know the questions to ask.
Jody Graff, Graphic Design Program Director, and I are teaching an independent study class at the Drexel University Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. As part [...]

Introduction
Every decade, it seems, there are valiant standard-bearers for effective visual communication of data, information, and knowledge, of facts, concepts, and emotions,  who arise and publish guidebooks for business people, computer and information-technology professionals, and others who have not been exposed to the philosophy, principles, and techniques of information design and information visualization.
Currently, Edward Tufte [...]