You’re doing it wrong: a celebration of ‘worst’ practices
summary
Argues that strict adherence to data-visualisation best practices suppresses creative discovery and that intentionally doing the opposite exposes new insights and aesthetics. Describes concrete projects from a creative practice that replace dashboards and charts with wilfully wrong outputs, use alternative studio processes rather than established toolchains, and treat misreadings as generative material. Reports that these experiments consistently produce unexpected design affordances and higher engagement than equivalent “correct” versions.
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