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Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

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
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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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The world is generally multivariate
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The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
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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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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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The point of the essay is to change things.
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The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?
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There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.
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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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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
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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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Great design is not democratic it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
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It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
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Simple design, intense content.
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