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Jasmine Otto 2024-10-15 21:36:43

getting some lovely blue-sky Realtalk energy from this piece on 'infrastructuring'

Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design Challenges

Erling Bjögvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren 2012

gobigcreativelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Contemporary-Design-Thinking-Challenges.pdf

An infrastructure (e.g., railroad tracks, cables, or the Internet) reaches beyond the single event (temporal) and the site event (spatial); it does not need to be reinvented every time; and it is embedded into other socio-material structures. However, the infrastructure also is accessible only by participation in specific practices. [...] it is relational and becomes infrastructure in the relationships between design Things at project time and (multiple, potentially controversial) design Things in use.

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Jasmine Otto 2024-10-16 17:52:56

Learnable and Expressive Visualization Authoring Through Blended Interfaces

L'Yi et al. 2024

osf.io/preprints/osf/pjcn4

we explore the design space of blending multiple visualization authoring interfaces for supporting authoring tasks in a complementary and flexible manner. To evaluate the effectiveness of blending interfaces, we implemented a proof-of-concept system, Blace, that combines four common visualization authoring interfaces—template-based, shelf configuration, natural language, and code editor—that are tightly linked to one another to help users easily relate unfamiliar interfaces to more familiar ones. Using the system, we conducted a user study with 12 domain experts who regularly visualize genomics data as part of their analysis workflow.