BBC Shownar

London-based design consultancy BERG asked us to develop data visualisation approaches and screen designs for BBC's service Shownar.

The web service analysed online activity (or 'buzz') around BBC TV and radio and displayed which shows sparked the greatest interest based on activity on blogs, Twitter, microsite comments, etc.

The main part of our work focussed on visually describing relative and absolute differences in buzz. Here we produced several infographical prototypes, all required to work within a minimal pixel footprint.

BERG wrote up a good explanation of the project and there is more information on the BBC Internet Blog.