April 27, 2004
baby montioring
found on Trixie update
banal or sublime? hard to say, but interesting infographics none the less. I rather like the quanitiative approach to child-rearing.
shout to adam for the pointer
February 26, 2004
The Change Curve
I like interactive images, maps, illustrations and short demos. They have the difficult goal of making complex information clear, in a simple, attractive manner in limited space. This one is a charming illustration of, what the author calls, The Change Curve - various stages an organisation goes through in the process of implementing a successful change.
The interactive part of the image however, is sloppy and confusing. It takes a moment to realise that you're supposed to begin from left. Then, as you mouseover the first part of the image, slowly, a rectangle appears over it and rest of it begins to fade. I don't know why this effect was really necessary, particularly when it's implemented so poorly.
On comparing it with the image on the previous page, I see that they've erased parts of text from the original illustration. It think they did it because it was too small to read and enlarging the image would have increased the already massive size of the page. It's 225 Kb. The markup itself is about 80kb and rest is JS and image files.
Another problem is that the rollover descriptions appear at two places, top and bottom of the image. This hinders readability and confuses further. What's at the top and what's at bottom? Which of these should I read first? This division is particularly problematic for users browsing on 800 x 600 resolution who probably won't scroll down to find text below the image.