Thinky.org is the personal blog of Zach Pousman. I am a designer, researcher, and strategist at the intersection of people and technology. Here you'll find a collection of stuff from my travels around the internet. I like info graphics & visualizations, well-designed goods and services, effective advertising, and novel interaction techniques.
Here’s a quick now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t graph “fix” from Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. The graph on the left is how the original creator from the WSJ chose to divvy up the bins. Each bar represents the total aggregate taxable income for the group, but each bin is quite arbitrary (some span $10,000, others $5 million). But [...]
I am torn about upcycling. The concept of upcycling is about creating “better” products from lesser ones, as opposed to recycling downward, or downcycling, where high-quality things are turned into lesser-quality goods. As a matter of principle, it’s great to see industrious people (and companies such as holstee and terracycle) take things that are destined [...]
In the run-up to this year’s U.S. elections, I’m announcing my candidacy! I am now one step closer to my Ph.D., having successfully proposed my thesis yesterday. Go me. I have some clean up work to do, mostly regarding how I’ll be analyzing my data from the evaluations, and then it’s on to my list [...]
