What You're Getting Wrong about Data Vis - According to a UX Designer (Thomas Watkins) - KNN Ep 114

08/31/22 • 62 min

Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas Watkins. Thomas is a thought leader in the User Experience space, a speaker and industry practitioner located in Houston TX. He is a life-long learner who has a passion for bringing greater clarity to the world. Thomas has made it his career’s focus to combine technology with design psychology in order to drive business success. He specializes in helping his business partners bring their own brilliant ideas to life, by translating complexity into simplicity. The scope of his work has included interface design for mobile, SaaS system architecture, usability research, and data visualization. In this episode we take a dive into the user experience field, we learn about human factors research, and we explore how data analystis and data scientists can improve their data visualization by applying some psychology principles. I hope you enjoy this episode, I know I had a great time speaking with Thomas.

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Transcript

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So if you're ordering food on Uber Eats, the fact that you're using an app to do it should mostly kind of fade in the background as you're using it and your experience is thinking about restaurants and you're scrolling through the list and these are the available restaurants. Then you tap in, you open one. Now you're thinking about menus. What is on the menu? What's available?

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And you are kinda making a selection, thinking about food...