What Killed Innovation?
a year ago
- #scrollytelling
- #data-visualization
- #innovation
- The data visualization field experienced a digital Renaissance in the early 2010s with the advent of D3.js and interactive graphics.
- By the mid-to-late 2010s, creativity in data visualization plateaued, with formats becoming predictable and homogenous.
- Scrollytelling became a dominant format, leading to fatigue due to overuse and lack of innovation.
- The COVID-19 pandemic increased public awareness of charts but also reinforced the demand for simple, intuitive visuals like bar and line charts.
- Economic downturns and the rise of no-code tools have reduced investment in bespoke, innovative data visualizations.
- The industry is currently in a plateau phase, but experts predict another cycle of innovation in the future.