Mike Cisneros is an award-winning data visualizer, writer, and two-time Tableau Zen Master. As a creator, he draws from his range of professional experiences (as an editor, a software developer, a graphic designer, a data analyst, and an online community builder) to inform his approach to developing elegant, persuasive, and effective data visualizations.
How to get people to remember your visualization
August 9, 2019 • By Mike Cisneros, By Lilach Manheim
Since our brains aren’t remembering things as they once did, it’s yet another challenge to us, as visual creators, to make our works memorable even against this gradient of forgetfulness, this necessity of filtering out vast rivers of content from our consciousness lest we find ourselves overwhelmed, flooded, and washed away.
How to build information experiences for comprehension
July 23, 2019 • By Lilach Manheim, By Mike Cisneros
Building an information experience for comprehension and retention will take your visualizations from "not bad" to "great." Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain how you can boost your data viz design for your audiences.
Usability is the most satisfying design puzzle to solve
July 10, 2019 • By Lilach Manheim, By Mike Cisneros
Tableau Zen Masters, Mike Cisneros and Lilach Manheim, share why usability is the most satisfying design puzzle to solve.
Beyond the hook: Building information experiences for attention and engagement
June 26, 2019 • By Lilach Manheim, By Mike Cisneros
Every audience’s interaction with an information experience begins with choice. Zen Masters, Lilach and Mike explore what factors influence choice.
Creating, not designing: The four goals of every information experience
June 13, 2019 • By Lilach Manheim, By Mike Cisneros
Guest bloggers Lilach Manheim and Mike Cisneros explain four goals behind a dataviz design philosophy that will help you create more meaningful information experiences and outcomes.