Designing Information Visualizations for Strategic Planning - Platforms An Iterative Research Project Generating Information Visualization Design Guidelines and Concepts By Investigating the User Experience
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2021
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EKMAN, TOVE
NORDGREN, ALEXANDER
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In strategic planning software, one of the problems is how to visualise the great
amount of data available in a manner that provides an overview and increases the
user experience. In this project, we have attempted to find new ways of visualising
the data in Stratsys, a company providing a strategic planning software to several
Swedish municipalities and companies. Through literature studies, user research and
iterative work with ideation, prototyping and evaluating of concepts, we have found
two proposed concepts for new visualizations to be used within Stratsys platform,
as well as a compiled list of information visualization design guidelines to be used
while designing for a strategic planning platform. The compiled design guidelines
are based on the takeaways from the evaluations conducted throughout the project
and they serve to answer the research question: Which design principles, leaning
on novel and well-known research on information visualization and transitions, can
support overview and comprehension of large amounts of data in a strategic planning
platform?. Thereby, we provide a set of guidelines on designing information visualizations
for strategic planning platforms with a focus on finding, understanding and
getting an overview of large amounts of data.
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information visualization , qualitative data , strategic planning , innovation , user research , design principles , design guidelines