Flickr User Model, v0.3

Or "Camel's Back Broken." I like this last version, I really do, but I think there are a couple of misteps. I'd be really interested in what you think.. Leave a comment or (even better) a note and let's give this version a good community critique. I have some thoughts I'll post to Soldier Ant in a couple of days.

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jamesmelzer says:

Bravo
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

dcostolo says:

This is absolutely remarkable. I love it.
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

ribot. says:

Very nice indeed!
Posted 49 months ago. ( permalink )

datter says:

That is some interesting stuff. :)
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

josh.ev9 says:

Excellent model! Did you make the people yourself, or are they part of a library somewhere?
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

peetyman says:

Reminds me of a content map.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

soldierant says:

Josh -- the little people are all handcrafted. I have ambitions to make a whole family of them available to the Web sometime soon. I'll post that site here when it's available.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

short.circuited [deleted] says:

That one's really great.
Posted 45 months ago. ( permalink )

publicmind says:

Niiiice - Can I yse this in a presentation? Of course with you as THE source....;-)
Posted 44 months ago. ( permalink )

squidish says:

The type of camera, exposure, data taken, etc. are not here - should they be added as bursts under "Camera" or is this more about the content of the photo. For example, I like to search photos by type of camera - I think others do so as well.

Awesome diagram!
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

soldierant says:

Good question squidish: yes, I think I had originally included the 'Camera' concept to link to EXIF-style metadata like you note. (Actually, I guess, some metadata (camera type) would probably belong to the camera, while other data -- exposure settings, date taken, would probably be a property of the photo itself.) But between my original good intentions, and this final version, everything got so crowded that I never ended up getting to that. Maybe in version 0.4.. ;-)
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

otherthings says:

The illustrator in me says: wow, beautiful design!

But the info-vis geek in me says, ugh: that's an awful lot of information to try to cram into one graphic! It's already pretty cluttered, and yet there's still lots missing (e.g. Content->MayOffend->Anyone ;-) What is the purpose of this exercise? What is the specific story you're trying to tell? Or is clutter actually what this is all about, and I'm just missing the sweet irony of it all?

But then the illustrator in me tells the info-vis geek to stop being such a noodge. ;-)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

vmaurin says:

Great map. Is it an entire original design or do you use a specific software. ?

I created a (much) lighter version.

Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

soldierant says:

Hey otherthings. Thanks for the praise and the constructive criticism. The purpose of the exercise is merely to map related concepts in the Flickr world, so I'd say the diagram (intentionally) lacks any one central 'argument' or thesis.

(Though one could argue that the design lends a certain emphasis to some of the related concepts: 'User' takes 'Photos' of 'Subject' for instance.)

So for me, part of the appeal is the self-directed nature of it. (Which, I guess, is me abdicating my responsibility as a designer.. to lead the eye and engage the mind in some narratively cohesive way.) I do think this final version probably over-reaches, and stumbles into 'jumbled mess' territory a bit, and quite a few people I've talked to seem to prefer the cleaner, simpler first version.

And vmaurin -- great diagram! It's fun to see alternate takes on the same subject matter. I've wanted, for awhile now, to build a structured .dot file of all the concepts and run it through GraphViz just to see what the resulting layout would look like. (Ah, scarce evening hours...)

To answer your question, I did the illustration in Adobe Illustrator (version 'CS' -- 11, really.)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Rem Ryzhov says:

Hello!
Would you tell me which software did you use to make such a beautiful concept maps (Flickr User Model, v0.3)?
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

tomdesnaker says:

The people in RED live in a dangerous place of the world, according to the world map, just my 50c.
Great "organizational chart" anyway.
wkr
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

danielegaliffa | mentegrafica.it says:

Very. very cool stuff !
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

mamelouk says:

hi,

can you tell me wich software did you used to draw this mindmap ?
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

soldierant says:

hi mamelouk -- the answer to your question is 5 comments above this one. Regards..
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

大頭鼠  says:

Amazing !
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

joelogs says:

Brilliant! Nice template for extending to other Social Web apps. BTW Vmaurin, did you use cmap for your light version?
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

vmaurin says:

Yes I used IHMC Cmap Tools. It's an amazingly easy (and fun) to use maping tool.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Ryan Coleman says:

Great work Soldierant... I've just started playing around with this style of lying out concepts myself and this series was a big inspiration. (Along with a great "Visual Thinking School" session w/Dave Gray) -- it's really changed how I look at a lot of things.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

摇曳的百合花 says:

Very Great work. It helped me to know the whole strategy of flickr. I suggest that maybe you would like draw another map of youtube. Anyway, there are many things alike between these two websites.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

borgmarc says:

Great. We all need new ways to display the data and the choices around us. An active version will be very usefull to be used as a map of flickr.

Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

el_jaybird says:

That's really amazing.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

blaiq says:

I recently wrote about a different viewpoint on the evolution of Flickr. Going by the enthusiasm of the discussion here I do believe you'll find it interesting. I'd love to hear comments and critiques.

Thin Ice April 2006
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

falconlibrarian says:

Thank-you, Thank-you. I like the suggestion for doing the same thing for
YouTube. You know, in your spare time...
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

xian says:

hey, to view this flickr made me remove safesearch - is there something unsafe or risque about this image? :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

re100cyber says:

fantastic information art!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

evebone says:

this is really cool
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

uedrobm says:

DOZER is my hero! :) Nice map brutha
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

borgmarc says:

diagram everywhere!

Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

soldierant says:

I just made the editable source image for this diagram available for download. Enjoy.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

Daniel Gasienica says:

Hello, just wanted to thank you & let you know that I used your graphic in a blog post.

gasi.ch/blog/2007/10/29/tandem/

Regards,
Daniel
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

dartar says:

nice
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

Astraumelia says:

amazing! está bacáaan!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

dcsaint says:

Very nicely done. I added it to my Favs
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

me2flickr [deleted] says:

나중에 랩 발표할 때 써먹어야지 prezi, Flickr User Model bysongsl

Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

me2flickr [deleted] says:

나중에 랩 발표할 때 써먹어야지 prezi, Flickr User Model bysongsl

Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

VISup srl says:

Here it is your infographics on ClosR.it by Greghunt: www.closr.it/show/DWkMeagnv-g

Nice work!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Khenjiin says:

cool, i love it.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

islandmommy says:

really cool, i like this
Posted 4 weeks ago. ( permalink )

alxflickrrr says:

Thanks for sharing!
Posted 3 weeks ago. ( permalink )

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