I was a bit dismayed that this was about the technical design of data-intensive applications, not about their UX design. There still seems to be a huge gap in the latter.
Hah, I just thought the same! I've ended up in situations where I needed some UX patterns for data that updates often with many updates per second, and wondering how to show that the best way. Guess one example is log viewers with debug output from some program.
Would very much appreciate if someone has some resources to link or case studies.
Probably you interpreted the word "design" with its narrower meaning of visual(ly-oriented) design, rather than, say architecting data-intensive applications.
As with another poster, Edward Tufte's books came to mind - though it's about visual presentation of information, not user interface/experience design.
I've also felt that there's an unmet demand for books that provide a thorough overview of UI/UX design patterns, especially the way this book (Designing Data-Intensive Applications) does for its domain.
Design isn't just about visuals, but also interaction.
It is an overloaded term for sure, but the title of the book caught my attention, it is only when I read the article that I realized it was talking about the design of application
implementations, not the UX.
Interaction works both ways (input and output). Tufte's work is generally in just one direction (visualization as output). It isn't very applicable to application as much as it is to presentation (think: how did we figure out what to present in that PowerPoint inthe first place?).
