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As an amateur painter and professional coder, I must say art and design are key to even my statistical analysis. The issue is the human reader of your product.
by Dumblydorr 5y ago
As an amateur painter and professional coder, I must say art and design are key to even my statistical analysis. The issue is the human reader of your product. You want to make their experience easy and pleasant, even if it's reading numerical analyses. Thus, I take very boring looking data and turn it into something that's possible to engage with easily. That's composition, design, detail oriented execution, many crossovers between various creative fields.
- pm90 5y agoAbsolutely agree with this. I love that most mainstream monitoring tools today aren’t just “graphs” but they keep in mind contrasting/complementing color codes to make it easy to read and spot changes that may be concerning. If I’m an engineer operating services I probably have to stare at dashboards and graphs a lot; making them pretty/easy to read makes my life just a little bit easier and I’m grateful for that.
- nicbou 5y agoAs a technical writer, that also applies to how you write and structure information. I spend a lot of time refining the documentation I write, because I've been the victim of poor documentation. This goes hand in hand with a good design, good typography and quality code. The result is a website that answers your questions and makes you feel more confident about your goals.