Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set.

Fast Company, May 10, 2009 — You've seen them. Those tag clouds in the right-hand column of Web sites with jumbled type of varying weight and size indicating the relative usage of words. Tag clouds may be the most common example of an emerging field known as "information visualization," an offshoot of graphic design devoted to the clear display of complex information. Executive pay in relation to shareholder returns. Senate voting patterns.