Visual Information-Seeking Mantra

Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. [Shneiderman, 1996]

• Overview
• Zoom and Filter
• Details on demand
• View Relationships
• History
• Extract

The Visual Information-Seeking Mantra [Shneiderman, 1996] summarizes many visual design guidelines and provides an excellent framework for desiging Information visualization applications.

Related Information

• 2006-04-19: "The Surest Path to Visual Discovery" - Article by Stephen Few illustrating the Visual Information Seeking Mantra

References

• [Sahling, 2002] Gerald N. Sahling, Interactive 3D Scatterplots - From High Dimensional Data to Insight, Master's thesis, Vienna University of Technology, 2002.
• [Shneiderman, 1996] Ben Shneiderman, The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, pages 336-343, Washington. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/409647.html