Nikolasz Domolki

Process book layout and grid

CVL #19 Extension This is an extension of the data curration ive already done, I intende for these to go along side of the 3 other days, as sort of an overall wrap up in its most intense form.

CLV #18 The final layout Here is the final layout of my data collection. Overall, I think they are quiet successful as they reach the aim of shouting the stuff that more prominent in my life, and really hiding the intimacies which if you want to fin out more about, you’re going to have to engage more with it. i cant fully show my final outcome because of tumblr length limitations

CVL #17 Refinement Here, i just worked on refining the width of my text box, really looking the the additional length that comes with it, from all the compactness i receive as a reward. I also turned off hyphenation as i found it to be distracting and it was causing trouble with the type layout. 

CVL #16 Experimentation Here, I played more with all of the effects mentioned before. I have the alternating text sizes, different colours, different opacity’s and the block up, stacked vertically.  I ended up liking the most keeping the opacity with the black and white and doping the colours as i just dont have a reason to justify the usage of any colour as it doesnt represent anything.

CVL #15 Experimentation This time around, i played with the vertical format and i have to say, i think i way prefer it over the landscape stuff. I call this the receipt. With this, my vision is to have this very long printed out paper that is just ongoing, representing the flow of my day and the things i doing. With it being vertical, I played around a little with the width of the text box in order to try and squeeze in as many words into the most compact areas possible while not having jagged edges.  This reminded me off of Kurt Champion’s work and the visuals are similar to what im going for https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/bin-ladens-hard-drive/

The what i call, “Calendar” layout using the tiles, was probably my favorite out of these all, however i just wasnt sure if it was the right thing to do. It did look pretty interesting with some bits being filled in and other empty as it did really look like a calendar. However, I just didnt think it looked too good in my opinion. When i spread out the calendar into  a long stretch of a landscape, I imagined going into a room, where it just stretches all over the walls from left to right so it was definitely ambitious. In reality, the calendar approach was probably better though.

background colours changing based on rating

CVL #12 Nicholas Felton BINGO! I think I found my guy! Initially when looking at his work, I felt as it if was too disconnected to what i was doing, but the more and more digging i did, i found better and better stuff, so i categorized his stuff from most to least relevant The best of his stuff: http://feltron.com/FAR14.html http://feltron.com/FAR09.html This is the stuff that i found the most useful out of his work, and i will draw the most inspiration from. I really like these info graphics because they are quite bold and simplistic, straight to the point, but they also cover similar topics that i wanna delve into so this can give me a head start on what to do. These things that i just described, essentially make up my visual identity so this is real exciting stuff to me. The good but not excelent: http://feltron.com/FAR08.html http://feltron.com/FAR07.html http://feltron.com/FAR06.html These were also strong pieces of his for my needs, but they just didnt excel to the highest levels. And lastly everything that was poor but somewhat relevant: http://feltron.com/FAR05.html http://feltron.com/Daytum.html http://feltron.com/FAR13.html http://feltron.com/FAR10.html http://feltron.com/Editorial.html http://feltron.com/FAR11.html http://feltron.com/FAR12.html http://feltron.com/B5B.html http://feltron.com/BikeCycle.html http://feltron.com/Skillshare.html http://feltron.com/Reporter.html These things were just simply not too relevant for me to look at them.

CVL #11 - Tracking (almost) every hour of my year When doing my research about information design and curating data, I’ve stumbled across this persons article about them essentially documenting every hour of their year. I found it to be super interesting and useful to look at some of the examples that he’s done, and see what ways he went about doing them. After he collected all this data, he was able to map out his life in a year and see where stuff went well and not so well. He was able to make correlations and come to conclusions that he has hypothesized before and came to some interesting findings. He was also able to see improvements and regressions compared to last years data which is super interesting to look at. The work that he’s done is quite fascinating, not only did he record all this data, but he recorded the micro stuff too. Not only did he record the hours worked for example but also what type of work, where and when etc. He’s really gone on a full deep dive into this and its fascinating to look at all this observable information to be put down in written form. https://betterhumans.pub/lessons-learned-from-tracking-almost-every-hour-in-my-year-a71b8ea493d9

Ive next looked at the work of Sarah Hyndman and how she works with typefaces. I found it to be super interesting on the surface however, there was not much more depth i could see that there was to dive into but what she does is a great representation of the examining of human psychology and their relation to type. Essentially, her work revolves around the significance of type and how each face can change the experience of the viewer. That may be precised value, texture, taste, luxury, smell etc. I think this might be very useful for my informational layout.

CLV  #9 Freakonomics Research As it was advised to me int the last tutorial, I went and did some research into Freakonomics and all its curious findings. I spent an ok amount of time researching and diving into this, unfortunately i didnt find it too particularly useful. However, I did appreciate its attempts and methods used to extrapolate conclusions and the usable, tangible data through examining history and information. For example how the legalization of abortion during though, crime full times, can have the effect of reducing hardship and crime by proxy of less people being born into the “badness” meaning that they were simply not there to do the crime. (which is most common in rougher and poorer areas) Sources I’ve looked at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UtdA0DiDaU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6gOeggViw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABM20X0iZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UGC2nLnaes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5gMZcZWm0 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Freakonomics/kxsQhM4D8uIC?hl=en&gbpv=1 https://freakonomics.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics

CVL #8 Data Collected 4-8 Unfortunately, due to my circumstances as well as to my strength/willingness to do it during difficult times, I have fallen off drastically after day 4, and so instead of the hopeful 1 weeks worth of data collection, now i only realistically have about 3 whole days. I dont see this as too much of a problem however, as this will get me to cut down and narrow down on information, making my life easier. And the brief more on track, not getting derailed by all the side details.

CVL #8 The data collected 1-3 Here is a compilation of all of the data that ive managed to collect throughout these few days. I called my data collection the Mood Meter, as initially that was its primary focus, but as i went along, the more i realized i should probably expand on these ideas. By the end, I was tracking these things on an hourly basis: MI= Mind - how well im feeling mentally BO= Body - hows my body doing HU= Hunger - how are my hunger levels and stomach TH= Thirst - how well hydrated I am EN= Energy - how are my energy levels TE= Temperature - how warm or cold im feeling WE= Weather - how is the weather outside O= Overall - how im doing all together WUU2= What You Up To - what ive been doing in the past hour Im not sure if all of it will be sued or not but the more data the better - can always cut down through selection

Overlapping datasets reveals something new - Freakonomicks - plotting peoples decisions based on environmental and worldly happenings.  I liked all this for the most part, so i decided to just go with it

CVL #7 - Reset After that last crit, i wasnt very confident at all that i will be able to complete my mini learning agreement and i realized i set out for myself a bigger task than i expected and I dont think I would be able to complete it to great levels, especially not in time. Therefore, now i have restarted my project. I had a chat, and one of the ideas that was brought up was data collection which i had some fun with during term 1, so i thought i might as well give it an other attempt. Therefore, I started to collect data every hour of my waking day for as long as i could.

These are the notes ive taken away from the feedback: Is it a game that you can't win? Is it a puzzle that's missing its pieces Does the completed puzzle not add up to its completed form ? If you ask what do you see there's no failure coz it's up to interpretation. If you ask do you see a bare there is Look at how questioners are done Look at website dark patterns. Ui and how you make 1 option more click able over the other Make failure so addictive that you'll want to do it over and over again to succeed Never ending grind. Just when you thought you're close a new higher ending opens up Make a web page that goes against conventional Web usage Make people re do the whole test if they fail once