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HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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The importance of information visualization as a means of transforming data into visual, understandable form is now embraced across university campuses and research institutes world-wide. Yet, the role of designers in this field of activity is often overlooked by the dominant scientific and technological interests in data visualization, and a corporate culture reliant on off-the-shelf visualization tools. This article is an attempt to describe the value of design thinking in information visualization with reference to Horst Rittel's ([1988]) definition of “disorderly reasoning,” and to frame design as a critical act of translating between scientific, technical, and aesthetic interests. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.