Demo Video
Role: UX Designer
Duration: Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
Team: 2 Designers (Fatima Mamu)
Project Type: A Web App (School Project)
Duration: Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
Team: 2 Designers (Fatima Mamu)
Project Type: A Web App (School Project)
Background and Context
In the context of the observed dynamics from 2018 to 2022 concerning U.S. internal migration trends, the ascendency of specific industrial sectors, fluctuations in employment statuses, and the proliferation of remote work modalities, how these trajectories can be extrapolated to anticipate the emergent landscape of work beyond at the scale of the nation, state, and county? How can these informed projections be employed to guide policy frameworks, strategic investment, and urban planning methodologies?
Pain point
Research
Initially, we explore traditional methodologies to represent the net flows of people. However, it isn't easy to view and compare multiple categories of data on various scales smoothly. Therefore, we employ a new visualization methodology.
Visualization Anatomy
Therefore, we designed a multidimensional analytical website, to visualize the migration flow from 2018 till now, for citizens to find out the trendy destination for settlement, for business owners to explore new investment opportunities, and for governments to review where necessary resources should be located.
Framework
Technical Pipeline
Information Architecture
Design
View and compare migration flows indicated by the designed color palette year by year by sliding the timeline bar.
Transitioning from 2D to 3D Map to View Outliers and Learning Related Information
Toggle to review the national flow map in 3D, see the outliers in different heights (which indicate the net flow in or out), and click in to see the detailed information about each outlier, transitioning to a more personal scale.
Choose a year and two states to compare.
Impact
Shifting Tides successfully uncovers the migration flow change and the relationship between outliers as well as their demographic data such as population employment, occupation distribution, population, and work-from-home population yearly, to provide informative visualized guides for self-interpretations.
Shifting Tides successfully uncovers the migration flow change and the relationship between outliers as well as their demographic data such as population employment, occupation distribution, population, and work-from-home population yearly, to provide informative visualized guides for self-interpretations.
Achievement
This project manages to allow users to see urban spaces at various scales to feel the adaption impact from hybrid work modes, reveal the relationship between urban environment and target population attraction to provide data foundation for a further management strategy for facilities, and policies in the aspect of the demographic landscape.
This project manages to allow users to see urban spaces at various scales to feel the adaption impact from hybrid work modes, reveal the relationship between urban environment and target population attraction to provide data foundation for a further management strategy for facilities, and policies in the aspect of the demographic landscape.
Takeaway
Shifting Tides could include more visualizations such as commute patterns to investigate the correlation between inflow and outflow, and it could integrate visualization from one scale to another to reduce confusion.
Shifting Tides could include more visualizations such as commute patterns to investigate the correlation between inflow and outflow, and it could integrate visualization from one scale to another to reduce confusion.