When we look back a generation, people worked really hard to seek information; which consisted of spending hundreds of hours pouring over numerous books, journals or research material in the libraries.
Whether it is in packaging of a product, a print ad or a button on a webpage, a designer always faces the challenge to get noticed and grab the attention of the ever busy users.
In the previous article where we took an example of Iris flowers, we considered only two features of the flower but in the real world this might not be true.
A red vegetable, oval shaped, juicy and weighs around 40 grams. Red is data, vegetable is data, oval is data, juicy is data and 40 is data. Simply put, any information is Data. Any facts or numbers is Data.