Designing with Data

California College of the Arts,
Interdisciplinary Studio for
Interaction x Graphic Design
Spring 2020

The studio will provide students the opportunity to expand their quant design research skills, while advancing their data fluency to work with and communicate data effectively in their future careers. Using data as a medium to design is becoming more and more important in our data-drive world.

Students who want to pursue a career in design research, data visualization or have an interest in application of data in business/institutional settings will find the material covered especially relevant.

Class taught by Johannes Seemann

Create a data visualization that provides some insight into how the pandemic is affecting the economy in the United States, and in particular looking at if the timing of shelter-in-place orders have any effect on unemployment numbers by state.

Tableau Web Data Connector

Cat Lover <> Dog Lover

This is a statistical model we developed which allows us to predict if someone loves or would love dogs, cats, both or neither, and to what degree. Our expectation is to predict that without asking if they love cats or dogs directly.

Student Loan Crisis Study

Explore correlations between student loan repayment and credit card usage, and how to humanize student loans.

Rachel Poonsiriwong

Intuitive Compounding

Our focus with this project is to clearly explain compounding interest to people who have taken out loans. Money and time are valuable assets to our users so we provide quick and accessible ways for them to understand how they can make monthly payments to avoid debt. Our interactive data visualization makes complex calculations while acting as an intuitive, approachable, and relatable tool for users to manage their payments with.

Web Design by Johannes Seemann & Tara Lin