Interactions - January/February 2019

and agro-food industry). We are also contributing to the UX for Life Sciences (UXLS) initiative (https:// uxls.org/) to enable organizations that develop scientific software to adopt UX principles and methods.

I hope this blog post will help all of us who are part of these diverse and active communities focus on what people do in addition to what people see.

In closing, I’d like to thank Danielle Albers Szafir for writing the cover story and the editors of Interactions for publishing it. I welcome your feedback on these thoughts.

Endnotes

1. Additional references for this article (R1, R2, etc.) available at http://bit.ly/ karamanis-blogIX

2. Cleveland W. S. and McGill, R. Graphical perception and graphical methods for analyzing scientific data. Science 229, 4716 (Aug. 1985), 828–833.

3. Mackinlay, J. Automating the design of graphical presentations of relational information. ACM Trans. Graph. 5, 2 (Apr. 1986), 110–141.

4. Tufte, E. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press. Cheshire, CT, 2001.

5. Munzner, T. Visualization Analysis and Design. CRC Press, 2014.

6. Sedlmair, M., Meyer, M., and Munzner, T. Design study methodology: Reflections from the trenches and the stacks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, 12 (Dec. 2012), 2431–2440.

Nikiforos Karamanis is a senior user experience designer at EMBL-EBI. He enjoys spending time with life scientists, developers, and other stakeholders to help them work together to achieve their goals using lean user experience methods.

→ niki@ebi.ac.uk

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