David McCandless wrote Beautiful News, which is a truly beautiful collection of positive news, mainly in the form of graphs and charts.
I never before realized how wide the gulf was between the small improvements I might make to turn exploratory data visualization into presentation data visualization.
Even the pages that are essentially simple text are somehow better than what I would have done.
One such page was about Blood donors getting a text when their blood is used.
The blood you donated has now helped a patient! Thanks!
Beyond his presentation of it, notifying and thanking donors is a good idea. I’d like to see it adopted more broadly. I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be.
More broadly, designing the details of the user experience for the thank you doesn’t take much skill or insight.
