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Information VisualizationEdited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles
[Information Design Journal 25:1] 2019
► pp. 28–42
Edited by Marian Dörk and Isabel Meirelles
[Information Design Journal 25:1] 2019
► pp. 28–42
Design as externalization
Enabling research
The article is concerned with a central contribution of designing to information visualization in the digital humanities. The activity is characterized as one of externalization, instantiation in visible or tangible form of ideas. A spectrum of different interpretations of this process in the existing literature is discussed. The arguments are illustrated with recent practical examples from the authors’ own work in designing with a range of cultural organizations. The article concludes with reflections on how projects may best benefit from this work of design, empowering the designer as a co-researcher, alongside the historian, curator or other humanities scholar.
Keywords: data visualization, design methods, design research, prototyping, externalization, digital humanities
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Externalization as self-expression
- 3.Externalization as cognitive support
- 4.Externalization as feedback
- 5.Externalization as conversation
- 6.Externalization as research
- 7.Implications
- Acknowledgements
- Author queries
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