Liveblogging at AEASF: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps – Jeff Veen

future past
Hotwired
Adaptive Path
MeasureMap
Google Analytics
What next?

1974 – Things changed significantly and are important to what we do now on the web.
The end of the 60’s – that is the philosophies made it into the mainstream.
Not trusting authority – Watergate
AT&T dismantled, Cerf+Kahn said internetwork, PONG
First comercially viable hard drive.

Managing tremendous amounts of data.
Metadata transforms pure data into something useful
Data visualization makes it even easier to use.

Classic real data visualization: Cholera and John Snow
Minard’s map of napoleon’s trip to russia
Harry Beck – original london tube map
Chris Jordan: Photo renderings of data visualizations

Find a story in the data
Remove everthing that doesn’t tell the story

The fundamental lack of control is hard to adjust to

Data as navigation

Giving tools for discovery
Visual tools becoming interactive tools
Editing bevomes filtering for self-control of users data