Visual Design for Interactive Systems Course, IDC, IIT Bombay

Visual Design for Interactive Systems

Instructor: Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam

Course duration: 2weeks

Course structure: VDIS course structure (PDF)

Student Assignments

Assignment 1: Physical Visualisation of data

The Assignment was to visualise any kind of data in 3 dimensional space which cannot be represented in 2D space.

Visualising rain intensity in Mumbai by Akshay and Pankaj
Visualising Tea and Coffee consumption in a day at IDC canteen by Ameya and Sagar
Visualising quality of air of metro cities in India by Dileep and Neilmani
Visualising number of calls incurred in a day by Jayati and Karan
Visualising Dharma's activities by Naveen and Ravi
Walk for water by Nitin and Labeeba
Caffiene content in coffee by Prasad and Indrajeet
Best Bus service routes and frequency from IITB main gate by Rohan and Sandeep
Guide to energy saving light bulb by Shreshta and Dani
Background of students at IDC since last 11years by Sitara and Rucha

Assignment 2: Creating Infographics from the data of General Elections 2014

300 parties, 8000 candidates, 800 Million voters, 1 Million booths served by 20 Million officials. I with variety of structured & unstructured information –party performances, candidate histories, crime records, declared assets and historical trends. Identify narratives/aspects/issues that you want to explore and highlight through visualization of data from the general elections 2014. Gather and analyse relevant data to identify a data set with the greatest potential for an unique, surprising or hitherto unavailable point of view. Parse, filter, represent and refine to create a static visualization.

Number of people who opted fo NOTA by Akshay
The Black ink of democracy by Ameya
Time for womens' reservation bill by Dani
Social media campaigns in general elections by Dileep
Elections in Guwahati by Indrajeet
Expenditure during General Elections 2014 by Jayati
How India's North East voted by Karan
Role of model code of conduct teams by Labeeba
Uttarakhand general elections by Naveen
Jharkhand on the mind by Neilmani
Voter's guide to elections by Nitin
Election spend over years by Pankaj
Criminal records of MPs by Prasad
Why can't one ignore UP in elections by Ravi
Voter turnout in India by Rohan
Thane Parliamentary constituency in 2009 & 2014 by Rucha
Gerontocracy in Democracy by Sagar
Popular names in elections by Sandeep
Death of secular democracy by Shreshta
Criminal records of candidates by Sitara

Assignment 3: 'Unhack' mobile app- Designing an android application for phone security

The assignment was designed to go through the entire process of mobile application development. The development process included designing information architecture, wireframing, low fidelity prototypes, high fidelity prototypes and the final application screens.

Contact

You can reach Prof. Venkatesh Rajamanickam via email