Choosing a chart with your audience in mind

Using user-centered design to figure out the best chart for your audience.

Kai Wong
UX Collective
Published in
8 min readFeb 28, 2021

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A paper with a line graph on it, and a pen and rule to the side of it.
Photo by Isaac Smith on Unsplash

There tends only to be one way of thinking about chart choosers: based on the data.

There is a very famous chart chooser done by Dr. Andrew Abela that has traditionally been how you choose which chart to use.

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