small multiple designs 17Jan06

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Luke Wroblewski wrote an article about small multiple designs within a user interface:

"Many software programs provide access to, and let users work with, large amounts of information. In addition to interactions that allow users to create, edit, and expand massive data sets, these information-rich applications must also support effective data interpretation.

Data monitoring, reporting, and modeling applications require people to makes sense of large amounts of information quickly and easily. It should come as no surprise, then, that for such applications many interface design problems are actually information design problems. As a result, we can leverage information design solutions when tackling such problems. Using small multiples is one such solution."

Internetverweis

http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000044.php