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The joy of seeing another dataviz design system come together!

This is such a satisfying milestone in a project, when the dataviz design system comes together and I get to show the client what it looks like with demo plots.

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Building Stories with Data

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June 11, 2024

Fonts, colours, meaningful palettes to suit the project, all with accessibility guidelines baked in from the start, and all built around their existing brand guidelines and personal tastes.

And it’s even more satisfying to know they can do this with two lines of code!

A GIF showing a succession of graphs all with the same aesthetic. The text on the GIF shows that the graphs are made to look like this with just two extra lines of code.

Next steps: wrap up the documentation, add in a trusty parameterised function for a visualisation they use a lot, give the client (they’re not really called “xyz”) access to the package and enjoy spotting their plots in the wild!

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Thompson, Cara. 2024. “The Joy of Seeing Another Dataviz Design System Come Together!” June 11, 2024. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2024-06-11-when-a-dataviz-design-system-comes-together/.