Preattentive processing occurs without our consciousness at an extremely high speed. It is tuned to detect a specific set of visual attributes called Preattentive Attributes. If you want to understand more about how we process a visual, please refer to this post on Visual Perception. Preattentive attributes determine what information catches our attention. This is important in…
Bar charts are one of the most commonly used chart types. They are easy to understand and are great for comparisons. But every so often we come across bar charts that are colorful, poorly designed and misleading. In this post, I want to give you 5 easy tips to create functional and beautiful bar charts. I…
In this post let's talk about the importance of consistency when telling a story with charts. So what is consistency? Consistency in story telling comes from colors, type of charts, font and size of messaging, alignment of various chart objects, to name a few. Consistency is everything that makes a chart look neat and easily readable. Let's look…