Data Translation

For our data translation project I wanted to do something that related to online shopping as this is something that interests me. I personally am not a lover of online shopping and along the way I wanted to understand why it was so popular to other people.

I did a mind map of different online shopping as I wanted to make my data specific to a certain area.

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Here I explored the different ways that I could present my data. I wanted something that was easy to read and understandable.

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RESEARCH

Here I researched statistics that already existed online about online shopping. I gathered both UK and USA information so that I could compare and contrast the two. I also did my own primary research by doing a questionnaire in my class asking who shopped online, what shops they used the most and how much on average they would spend. This was interesting as a lot of people shopped on shops that didn't exist on the highstreet, however the older generation shopped in shops that already existed on the hughstreet. 

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Here I wanted to create symbols that represented the different areas of online shopping such as clothes, food, travel and music.

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I sketched out my data pie charts and filled in the percentage with my symbol for that area. This was it was clear and didn't need to use words.

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This is my final design for the data translation. I have added a key as some of the icons aren't clear. I have made it colourful so that it is more eye catching.

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Overall I enjoyed this project as I learnt information along the way and I was happy with the outcome of my design. I think it was clear to read and was easily understood. To improve I could have goon deeper into the online shopping and done a UK and USA version so that they could be compared.