Visual Complexity, postmodern interfaces and multinformation

“VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.”

I may have posted a link to this site before…either way, it’s worth repeating.

The Visual Complexity website features map of complex systems.

The content, graphs and maps remind us that information may be re-interpreted, re-formed, re-presented, re-understood.

I have been privately calling this dynamic transformation “multinformation” to underscore that information may be dynamically transformed into/from:

• process
• light
• pattern
• cycle
• wave
• form
• rythm
• texture
• relationship
• intensity
• motion
• etc.
• (Note: transformation may not transfer “emergent” dynamics.)

What’s the value of these images?

• We may be looking at the future of interfaces. The future of the web.
• Findability will be a complex challenge. I think this is one of the reasons why the fields of Interaction Design and Information Architecture will flourish in the future.
• Teachers can use multinformation to help your students re-understand information
• This is a tool for multispective analysis

Source:

Visual Complexity –
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Related Elsewhere:

Strange Maps:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

WayFaring: (Personalize your maps) –
http://www.wayfaring.com/

NPR: Personal Maps Emerge…” –
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5330820

The Institute of Figuring –
http://www.theiff.org/about/about.html

Related interfaces:

http://www.quintura.com/ 

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-Daniel Montano
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Keyword: Daniel Montano, Dan Montano, user experience design, information architect

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