Websites:
- Visual complexity and Information Aesthetics – examples of interesting visualizations
- The work of Jonathan Harris – examples of visualization to allow new ways to access information
- Logic+Emotion – David Armano’s blog with excellent examples of visual communication
- Presentation Zen for communicating professionally (and visually)
Talks:
- These TED talks, notably Hans Rosling showing the capabilities of GapMinder
- Jonathan Harris at Pop!Tech, showing a number of his projects
Tools:
- XMind – advanced mind mapping, offering a variety of map types
- Graphviz – ‘a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks’
- Gapminder – for displaying and making sense of large data sets
- The Mind Map Blog
- The Mind Mapping Software Blog
Books:
- Edward Tufte – a number of books on the principles and techniques of visualization
- Back of the napkin – on ‘solving problems and selling ideas with pictures’
- Sketching user experiences – an excellent tome on design with a focus on sketching to explore ideas.
- Drawing with the right side of the brain – a DIY course to enhance your drawing skills
Conferences / Community
Consultants / Creators:
- XPLANE – the visual thinking company
- Jonathan Jarvis – interaction and media designer with work including The Crisis of Credit Visualized