This past weekend I had the pleasure to speak at ONA09 in a panel (#ONAux) with Aron Pilhofer and Elliott Malkin of the NYT and Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path. I spoke briefly about the new challenges of designing online, the importance of capturing attention, and specifically how animation and interaction can help draw viewers in to interactive graphics.

I’m happy to make public the slides I used for my talk at /else/ona09.

I made reference to The Dot and The Line, and some of my work at the NYT:

• A Map of Olympic Medals
• Winners in a Long Presidential Campaign
• A Collection of Olympic Torches

Playing with some maps this evening. It’s pretty interesting to see San Francisco by only its altitude contours.

So for as long as they’ve been around, I’ve been a bit fan of Walk Score. It’s usually been just a toy, however as I get ready to move to San Francisco, I’ve been using it to compare against craigslist apartment rentals to the point where I think I’m getting RSI.

So it made sense to clear things up and take a look at the big picture

Read on for how it was done…
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