The UDV Card Deck: A Collaborative Design Framework to Facilitate Urban Visualization Conversations

This article presents the urban data visualization (UDV) card deck, a tool designed to facilitate reflective discussions and inform the collaborative design process of urban data visualization. The UDV card deck was developed to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and practice in workshop settings, fostering inclusive and reflective approaches to visualization design. Drawing from urban visualization design literature and the results from a series of expert workshops, these cards summarize key considerations when designing urban data visualizations. The card deck guides different activities in an engaging, collaborative, and structured format, promoting inclusion of diverse urban actors. We introduce the card deck and its goals, demonstrate its use in four case studies, and discuss our findings. Feedback from workshop participants indicates that the urban data visualization card deck can serve as a supportive and reflective tool for urban data visualization researchers, designers, and practitioners.