In 2018, most of the top professional sports leagues in North America and Europe will share an important trait: They will be more international in composition than ever before. These charts detailing the international composition of sports leagues in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
Source: Where Athletes in the Premier League, the N.B.A. and Other Sports Leagues Come From, in 15 Charts
Photo: Peter Liu
For centuries, people have relied on the same types of maps. Whether a map is interactive or hand-colored in a book, it offers latitude and longitude as the key indexes for getting from point A to point B.But designer and software engineer Peter Liu thinks he’s come up with an entirely new way to think about mapping. What if our maps were arranged by time, instead of space?
Source: There’s An Entirely New Way Of Mapping The World, And It’s Brilliant | Co.Design
The Hip Hop Timeline is an outstanding example of data visualization. Check it out – if you like music or not – to fully appreciate the information experience – and be inspired to reimagine the way you present data to educate and influence others.
Source: This is What Hip Hop’s Billboard Top 10 Sounded Like, Back in 1995 | Polygraph
There was a time when businesses could depend solely on the quality of their products to bring in new business. Success came from a company’s sole focus on delivering a dependable and highly functional product/service to the market. Today, that’s simply not the case. The majority of large brands have become marketing machines, competing against each other’s’ hype instead of being user-centric in the design of their products and services. Product differentiation has become a “me too†gimmick and is no longe
Source: Customer Experience Is the Future of Design | UX Magazine
Cats are kinda cool, but there are a few things about these little critters that you might not about. No worries, here’s a infographic from Ryogo Iwata that’s got you covered (fortunately, not in cat fur).
Source: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Cats | I Love Animals
