blog/Interactive Design

Earlier this year, Stamen collaborated with the NYU WILD Lab to design and build the Urban Wildlife Atlas, a map-centered tool that establishes baseline information about NYC’s built environment, natural environment, and wildlife. The WILD Lab – housed within NYU’s Wild Animal Welfare Program –  is a research and outreach initiative aimed at improving the...

If you’ve been following some of our recent posts about maps and gaming, perhaps you’re wondering, what lessons on spatial navigation can we take from game design and apply to navigation in the real world? The answer is that the visuals that accompany the driving directions you get from Google, Apple, Waze or most other...

At its very core, data visualization has two main components: representation and interaction.