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Design data handbook. Data driven design is so much more than just gathering data points to determine what design decision to make next - it includes analyzing the data, visualizing findings, and tweaking your decisions until you arrive at the optimal solution. This book will teach you how to unleash this power into your own work with a series of hands-on tutorials that illustrate techniques that are taken from lessons given by industry experts at General Assembly’s Design Data Bootcamp. There are five core chapters which represent the key concepts in data driven design: Creating a User Profile - Applying data to a variety of design tools and techniques Designing an Interface - Creating a visually appealing user interface by identifying usability issues and researching solutions to problems. Analyzing Data - Exploring different types of data visually, from numbers to charts, and from text to graphics. Visualizing Design Decisions - Creating presentations for your colleagues to use during meetings or discussions that aim at explaining your design decisions. Translating Design Decisions into Development - Mapping your design ideas into a living codebase, building prototypes with which you can test out your ideas against real users. "Design Data Handbook" Editors:S.Mahadevan, J.Donaldson, A.Thomas, S.Namvar Publisher: Lulu Press(February 2011) http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/design-data-handbook/16474035 As a Design Data practitioner you need to know when to use the data you have collected & how to apply it to make improvements in your designs or workflows. Getting the most out of the data you have collected can be hard work. It is easy to collect data without really knowing what to do with it. To achieve maximum benefit from the data you have 'validate' or 'clean' your data by removing any un-used fields and checking that its format, type and values is correct. To start this process you can use a spreadsheet and filter by key metrics such as: General: Technical: Geographic: There are several ways that you can extract value from your data. The most basic is report on it using Excel. A more sophisticated approach is to integrate your cloud based reports into the design process by visualizing your data. Visualizing your data can be achieved in spreadsheets, bar charts, histograms and pie charts, all of which you can create using Microsoft Excel. The advantage of communicating information in this way is that it allows you to make comparisons at a glance. You can also see trends or patterns in the data over time or across groups of people. cfa1e77820