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SMS answers from Ben Fry

Posted on March 9th 2011

Ben Fry employs design to help make complex data more understandable and accessible. He answers SMS questions sent during Design Indaba.


Do you have a clever way of organising your sock drawer?

I don't, and immediately I feel like I'm missing an opportunity. It also reminds me to buy additional interesting socks. So you've just added two things to my to-do list.

Have you seen the work of David McCandless? Awesome talk on the beauty of data visualisation on TED! Thanks for your talk on making data look cool.

Yes, though I haven't had a chance to meet him yet. The community of people doing this sort of work is somewhat small, so I expect we'll run into each other at some point soon...

Have you worked with Ushahidi?

I haven't, looks interesting.

I am a market researcher who loves design. Your talk was so pertinent to me and addressed so many areas I have thought about! I would love to correspond more.

Thanks! Glad you found it useful.

Ben Fry

Ben Fry is principal of Fathom, a design and software consultancy located in Boston. He received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design and data visualization as a means for understanding information.

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