Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufteis an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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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 know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.
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At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.
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In emphasizing evidential quality and beauty, I also want to move the practices of analytical design far away from the practices of propaganda, marketing, graphic design, and commercial art.
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It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.
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Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.
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The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.
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Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
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Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
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There are only two industries that refer to their customers as '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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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
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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 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?