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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.

Edward Tufte's Popular Quotes

Simple design, intense content.

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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 me…

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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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Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

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Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

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If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

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Above all else show the data.

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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 yo…

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