Gapminder interactive graph
Gapminder website
Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit organization founded to promote the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Their site features an amazing learning object–an animated and interactive graph that follows global development trends. A goal of Gapminder is to promote a fact-based worldview in a fascinating and engaging way. Their learning object succeeds through the use of colorful graphics that animate statistical data reflecting social, economic and environmental development across the world.
Gapminder’s design of their interactive graph is an excellent model of design for loders (learning object designers) to follow because of the way Gapminder visualizes statistical data, enabling the user to engage with important data, in meaningful ways. Viewing data in a pleasurable and visually arresting way guarantees that people will return again and again to view the data, which quickens comprehension of information. And, of course, this is the key reason for learning objects in the first place. Definitely an object worth studying.
