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Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
Graphic Designer
Political Scientist
Sculptor
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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Simple design, intense content.
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
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Design cannot rescue failed content.
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The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
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In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not know your audience, it's respect your audience, and really know your content.
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
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It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.
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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
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I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
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