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A talk by Mark Uraine Visual Data + Computational Design

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As an interdisciplinary designer I’m dedicated to making the web more accessible and human friendly by facilitating the transfer of information. I’m a designer at Automattic contributing to the open source project called WordPress. I get excited about family, religion, design, health, and open source.

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I’ve been making mistakes since

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41 years old. | 29 | 30 | 28

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I’m an older-than-average designer whose learned from a lot of mistakes, and is excited about facilitating the transfer of information visually and creatively.

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Visual Data + Computational Design

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VISUAL DATA A visual representation of data.

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COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN Design aided by the use of programming, coding, and algorithms.

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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem. - John Maeda

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Visual Data + Computational Design + Whatever excites you

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I get excited about health.

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MISSION Connect users with Nutritionists to improve eating habits and increase health. PROBLEM It was difficult for users to enter food items into the food log on a regular basis.

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SOLUTION Create a database of searchable food items that can be added to the food log. Create a Favorites module that allowed users to add common food items easily to the food log. Gamify the process. Create a mobile version of the website.

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ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION Mobile, Easy-to-use, Beautiful, Fun, and Informative

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ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION Mobile : Take pictures of your food on the go. Easy-to-use : Touch the color points of your food. Beautiful : Colorful and appealing. Fun : It redefines logging food. Observe the color patterns of your food. Informative : Provides feedback if you’re not eating various colors.

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OTHER EXAMPLES

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WITHOUT DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN None of that would exist.

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I also get excited about open source.

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WORDPRESS REST API With the advent of WordPress 4.7 the REST API is now fully integrated. This means that about 25% of the web’s public data is now available through an API.

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WORDPRESS REST API API = Application Programming Interface A set of rules and specifications that software programs can follow to communicate with each other.

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http://v2.wp-api.org/

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What kind of sites really use WordPress?

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DATA IS COOL But what do we do with it?

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Processing Java processing.org p5.js JavaScript p5js.org

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Wanna try something? [ TUTORIAL ]

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Thank you. Twitter: @mapk WordPress.org: mapk markuraine.com