interface design – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg interface design – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Fantasy Football and Election Maps https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/03/fantasy-football-and-election-maps/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:47:57 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1375 More]]> Development Seed’s Anna Scalamonga discusses the work they did on the Washington Post’s live interactive election maps. “Our challenge was to build a real-time data app that engages users and make it easy to track the most important information. Inspired by interactions and visual presentation from fantasy football apps, we designed tools for live election tracking that make it clear when the data is changing and provide contextual information to make these changes understandable.”

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