I recently stumbled across this great free resource called Visualizing Information for Advocacy. It was written by an organization called Tactical Technology Collective out of the UK.
Here’s just a few ways you can use information design according to Visualizing Information for Advocacy:
Tell Your Story
- To your constituencies
- To funders
- To government officials
- To the media
- To other organizations
- To the general public
Analyze Your Data
- Discover hidden patterns
- Find trends in changing systems
Make a Plan
- Analyze relationships of power
- Illustrate social networks
- Find out where your issue has the most impact
- Project future trends
Make Information Visible
- Show influence and causality
- Illustrate the consequences of specific choices
- Compare and contrast
Simplify and Clarify
- Illustrate analysis of an abstract idea
- Show the flow of a process or changing system
- Make your conclusions visible and easy to navigate
- Show structure and order in apparently chaotic data
