Edward Tufte Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The point of the essay is to change things.”
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“The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.”
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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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“What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.”
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“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'”
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“I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.”
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“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”
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“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.”
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“The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.”
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“Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.”
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“Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.”
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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 essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.”
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“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”
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“If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.”
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“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”
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“PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.”
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“A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.”
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“Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.”
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“The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.”
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“The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.”
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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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“What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
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“Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.”
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“I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.”
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“If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,”
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