Skyglyphs: Reflections on the design of a delightful visualization

Bon Adriel Aseniero, George Fitzmaurice, Sheelagh Carpendale, Justin Matejka

January 2022 · 2022 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP)

Abstract

In creating SkyGlyphs, our goal was to develop a data visualization that could possibly capture people’s attention and spark their curiosity to explore a dataset. This work was inspired by a mingling of research including serendipitous interactions, visualizations for public displays, and personal visualizations. SkyGlyphs is a nonconventional whimsical visualization, depicting datapoints as animated balloons in space. We designed it to encourage non-experts to casually browse the contents of a repository through visual interactions like linking and grouping of datapoints. Our contributions include SkyGlyphs’ representation and our design reflection that reveals a perspective on how to design delightful visualizations.

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@inproceedings{aseniero2022skyglyphs,
  title = {Skyglyphs: Reflections on the design of a delightful visualization},
  author = {Aseniero, Bon Adriel and Fitzmaurice, George and Carpendale, Sheelagh and Matejka, Justin},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP)},
  pages = {105--120},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}