by David LaFontaine | Jul 6, 2023 | Data, Design, Portfolio
For more than a decade, there’s been an increasing level of angst in the design community about data & analytics, and the push by organizations to use numbers to influence what we designers do. One of the biggest fears is that somehow, paying attention to all the...
by David LaFontaine | Jul 6, 2023 | Data, Design, Infographics, Portfolio
tl;dr version: If data is to be useful, it needs to be organized, formatted, prioritized, and presented so as to be accessible for ordinary users. Data visualizations are more than charts and graphs; they include all the surrounding text and legends (aka...
by David LaFontaine | Jul 2, 2023 | Design, Portfolio
The Year of Trustworthy Design” tl;dr version: There are eight experience design trends that will affect the successful adoption of digital products in 2023 – and they are affected by an underlying societal and market force. Users have been repeatedly blindsided...
by David LaFontaine | Jun 30, 2023 | Infographics, Portfolio
I created this video to hype up the gamified Design And Data/Analytics (#dada) session I was leading to try to bridge the gap between the XD practice and the Data practice. Yes, it’s a little over-the-top. But I find that when I can make people laugh (or smile,...
by David | Sep 15, 2018 | Portfolio
Case Study: Full-Spectrum UX Work in Myanmar Working as a “UX Team of One” to help a struggling university consolidate multiple sites and products Sometimes you have to do it all: UX Research, Design, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, and...
by David | Aug 19, 2017 | Portfolio
Case Study: How UX Research Drove a Marketing Pivot Building a site to overcome the skepticism of high-net-worth individuals to cloud-based services When I started, the company didn’t even have a name yet … AssetShield was conceived when the...
