Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
Edward TufteRead
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
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.
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.
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