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Data Visualisation for Designers Course
Data visualisation is an objective visual presentation of figures, findings, or facts, while information design is more subjective and provides an audience with instruction or information in a visually compelling way. Because the line between the two storytelling approaches is somewhat blurry, this course aims to provide you with the tools to do both. Considering that the world as we know it today pivots around vast amounts of data and information, why not learn to create beautifully designed, data-driven infographics?
Framed from a strong design angle, this course will equip you with the skills necessary to interpret and transform objective data into visually engaging infographics. Additionally, you will also learn to design infographics with a more subjective nature or purpose, such as instruction.
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If you’re an aspiring information designer, UI designer, or someone with a flair for visually presenting conceptual data and information, this online course is for you. Advance your career and upskill yourself over 12 weeks with all the knowledge and practical skills you’ll need. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects licenses are included.
What you’ll learn
- Learn to interpret objective data such as facts and figures like a pro.
- Master the principles and elements of visual design for infographics.
- Create beautiful, conceptual data visualisation content for reports and posters using Adobe Illustrator and other software tools.
- Breathe life into data and information by animating infographics in Adobe After Effects.
- Design visually engaging informative content such as knowledge-sharing and instructional infographics using Adobe Illustrator and other relevant software.
This course is perfect for:
- Aspiring information designers.
- User interface (UI) designers with an affinity for user experience (UX) design.
- Individuals with a flair for design, who want to add conceptual data visualisation and information design to their existing skill set.
Prerequisites:
Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects.
Illustrator, Photoshop, And Aftereffects System Requirements:
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- Refer to this page for a list of system requirements for Illustrator.
- Refer to this page for a list of system requirements for Photoshop.
- Refer to this page for a list of system requirements for After Effects
Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career
Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.
Course curriculum:
Introducing Data Visualisation And Information Design (1 Week)
- You will be introduced to the subtle differences between data visualisation and information design and will illustrate the different contexts in which the two approaches are used.
- You will see, that the two approaches to visual storytelling often overlap.
- This is a theoretical module.
Principles And Elements Of Visual Communication And Design (1 Week)
- Before you delve into data and information, you must understand the principles of design.
- This module provides you with opportunities to practice applying the elements and principles of design, while also giving you a basic foundation in visual communication theory.
- This is a theoretical and practical module.
Delving Into Data – Data Interpretation (1 Week)
- You will learn how to make sense of objective data such as facts, figures, and findings.
Delving Into Data – Conceptual Data Visualisation – Part 1 (1 Week)
- You will use Adobe Illustrator to design stunning data visualisation content built on the design and data interpretation skills acquired in previous modules.
- This module focuses on content designed in the style of pie charts, bar charts, and line charts.
- This is a practical module.
Delving Into Data – Conceptual Data Visualisation – Part 2 (1 Week)
- You will continue exploring the features of Adobe Illustrator, with a focus on designing beautiful content in the style of network graphs, scatterplots, and stacked charts.
- You will build on the skills acquired in previous modules, and take objective data to the next level.
- This module also focuses on static visual content.
- This is a practical module.
Delving Into Data – Conceptual Data Visualisation – Part 3 (1 Week)
- You will learn how to animate an infographic in Adobe After Effects.
- Breathe life into static content created in Module 4 and make your data move for web application.
- This is a practical module and will focus only on the basic animation of one infographic.
- Prior knowledge of After Effects is assumed.
Interacting With Information – Part 1 (1 Week)
- You will learn how to design informative content pieces such as infographics with a focus on sharing important information.
- This is a practical module and you will use Adobe Illustrator.
Interacting With Information – Part 2 (1 Week)
- You will learn how to design beautiful infographics with the aim of giving instruction.
- This is a practical module and you will use Adobe Illustrator.
Meet your team:
This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award-wins over the years.
About Red & Yellow
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We believe creative thinking is the most important skill of the future and it must be supported by uniquely human abilities such as leadership, adaptability and social intelligence.
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Reporting on data and making sure that the information gets to the right users, in the right way is important. Not everyone is adept at understanding a detailed financial breakdown, and analytics reports often intimidate people, which is why it is important to present information in a way that’s accessible to everyone.
Data visualisation involves placing data in a visual context to help users understand it. It can demonstrate patterns and trends that might be easily missed in a purely text-based data report. It can also refer to something as simple as an infographic, or as complex as a multi-point interactive programme that lets users decide what to compare.
In the age of Big Data, data visualisation is crucial in making sense of the information generated every day. Good visualisation ‘tells a story’ by removing the ‘noise’ and ‘highlighting the useful information’ (Tableau n.d.). Effective data visualisation is a delicate balancing act between form and function. The better you can convey your point visually, the better you can leverage that information.
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