Nicholas felton wikipedia

American infographic designer

Nicholas Felton is an infographicdesigner. He is the author of Personal Annual Reports turn this way weave measurements into a tapestry of graphs, maps stomach statistics to reflect the year's activities.^[1] He is authority co-founder of , and was a member of high-mindedness product design team at Facebook. His work has antiquated profiled in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired and Good Magazine and has anachronistic recognized as one of the 50 most influential designers in America by Fast Company.^[2][3] He is credited take influencing the design of Facebook's timeline.^[4] Nicholas is recently a Human Interface designer at Apple.

Work

His work focuses on "translating quotidian data into meaningful objects and experiences".^[5] His most famous art project is the Feltron Design (personal annual reports starting in 2005 until 2014), wheel he registers the minutiae of his life, including folder regarding the places he visited, the music he listened to, and his everyday activities in general (gathered non-native his own memory, calendar, photos, and data) and transforms it into a series of artistic charts. His end is not only analytical but also aesthetic, playing halfway the realms of self-quantification, design and art.

In greatness same vein he created in 2009 Daytum together joint Ryan Case, an app destined to track personalized every-day data, which could be shared between friends. Even comb it was very popular, it had some issues as regards design, so its reception was not completely positive.^[5] They are also responsible for the creation of Facebook's timeline, which was a challenge due to the impossibility alongside predict the user's content. That is why their conceive focused on being flexible enough to allow for tidy wide variety of content.

Felton's most recent work equitable the app Reporter, which via short surveys gathers observations about the user and tries to "illuminate aspects show consideration for your life that might be otherwise unmeasurable".^[5]

Even though be patient might seem that Felton's main concern is self-quantification, forbidden no longer quantifies his own life. After the 2014 edition, he paused his Annual Reports, stating that: "The world of personal data has changed considerably since interpretation project began in 2005 and this edition [2014 edition] attempts to capture its current state".^[6] Regarding this hard edition, he commented that: "While previous editions have relied on custom solutions to gather ethereal personal data, that edition is based entirely on commercially available applications forward devices".^[6] As a consequence, he no longer gathered file manually, which generated a problem of context: devices cannot connect raw data in order to tell a account. Nonetheless Felton is confident that data extracted from these devices, if put into relation, can lead us turn into modify our habits to live a happier and advance life.^[7]

He is now focused on exploring new ways take a breather present the data rather than in the gathering strike, especially through the use of photography, as we get close see in his book Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Cinematography. According to Felton, data is one of the primary sources of information for contemporary designers: "It's one try to be like the greatest opportunities designers have ever had to narrate stories visually. It's the most exciting time to exist a designer or visual artist, and it's data-driven."^[5]

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