Data Portrait Workshop

April 4, 2019 ⊙ New York City ⊙ Visual Design (VD) Team

May 2, 2019 ⊙ New York City ⊙ User Experience (UX) Team

How does this all start?

It all started with a conversation at work between me and my UX partner, Irina back in Fall 2018.

Irina: " Data is scary!"

Me: " Data can be fun and creative!"

Coincidentally a few days before, I attended a live event of Design Matters where Debbie Millman interviewed Giorgia Lupi and was inspired by the way Giorgia sees data.

During our conversation, Irina and I decided that we want to know more about data visualization. This can be a fun and exciting side project for us. We have to start somewhere, there’s a design share in April 2019, we can propose to run a data workshop together then. This will give us a few months to learn and plan.

The inspiration

What is Dear Data?

Dear Data is a year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, two award-winning information designers living on different sides of the Atlantic.

By collecting and hand drawing their personal data and sending it to each other in the form of postcards, they became friends.

Timeline

12.14.2018 ⊙ Kick-off for My Data Portrait workshop ⊙ Agreed on a weekly meetup to go over exercise in Observe, Collect, Draw!: A Visual Journal

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3.22.2019 ⊙ Agenda planning for the workshop

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4.2.2019 ⊙ Run through and timeboxing

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4.4.2019 ⊙ Save the Date — Data Portrait Visual Design (VD) Workshop

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5.2.2019 ⊙ Save the Date — Data Portrait User Experience (UX) Workshop

The Workshop

Inspired by Dear Data, we think data can help us connect with ourselves and each other. For our workshop, we defined the elements, guided the designers to collect their own data, and used them to create a data portrait of themselves.

Agenda