A growing collection

Interface
Field Guide

An appreciative collection of interfaces made by other people that I’m drawn to—especially work that makes complex information inviting, legible, and fun to explore.

These are inspirations, not my work. Four specimens collected so far; more will wander in.

01

NPR

Previously, on Arrested Development

A guide to the show’s running jokes, organized across episodes and seasons without losing the comedy inside the data.

  • Taxonomy
  • Television
  • Cross-reference
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Field noteA dense relationship map becomes approachable when the interface begins with a familiar narrative structure: the episode guide.

02

The Data Drop

The Colors of Wes Anderson

704 frames across 11 films become a chromatic history of a filmmaker’s visual language.

  • Color
  • Cinema
  • Progressive disclosure
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Field noteThe dataset is the aesthetic. Overview, narrative annotation, and close inspection work as successive levels of detail.

03

Scenelab

Star Trek Collection

Film color analysis gathered into a collection, making it possible to read a cinematic universe through palettes and timelines.

  • Collection
  • Film data
  • Comparison
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Field noteA consistent visual grammar makes separate works comparable while preserving the identity of each one.

04

The Pudding · Shirley Wu

Every Line in Hamilton

Every lyric is organized by singer, audience, conversation, and recurring theme to reveal relationships inside the musical.

  • Narrative
  • Relationships
  • Filtering
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Field noteFiltering is not just a utility here—it becomes a way to discover and tell smaller stories within the larger one.