SkyGlyphs: Reflections on the Design of a Delightful Visualization

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

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2022-10-20T14:24:00Z
Exemplar figure, described by caption below
SkyGlyphs is a delightful visualization depicting datapoints as balloons floating in the sky. Through the intentional use of whimsical aesthetics, SkyGlyphs' design aims to captivate people’s attention and leverage their curiosity as entry points to data exploration.

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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.