Tag: Tufte

Adored by the software industry and hated by visualization experts – those colorful little controlling speedometers that are supposed to, at a glance, tell executives whether the company is headed [...]

I don’t recommend drawing circles. In a best case scenario, your readers will pull out their rulers to confirm their suspicions. One prominent botch job was placed in a forum and was promptly ripped [...]

Management salaries are a hot topic nowadays. The usual “evidence”, however, is either manipulated in one direction or the other. Good information design can help make the discussion more objective [...]

Sachsen LB could have at least tried to. Their board of directors trusted a few traffic lights. They were usually green, but now all German taxpayers see is red. The unexpected sale of Sachsen LB must [...]

Dogs hear quite well. Sometimes they read minds. Some designers think: "What boring numbers. It's nothing to write home about." Others believe: "If there is nothing to illustrate, what am I a designer [...]

Galileo Galilei discovered geometry and eventually mathematics through art. Lodovico Cigoli, a friend and fellow painter, once compared him to Michelangelo. Galileo’s drawing of the moon surface, for [...]

A vehement advocate for good information visualization, Professor Dr. Rolf Hichert has successfully spent the past few years preaching his doctrine at controller conventions and seminars throughout Germany [...]

Edward Tufte, the world’s most renowned visualization expert, holds legendary information design seminars up to 40 times a year. I recently was among the hundreds that flock to each of his live performances [...]

Word-sized graphics transform the way we work with numbers and data. Slowing down for evidence In "The Discovery of Slowness" Sten Nadolny tells the real-life story of the seaman, Sir John Franklin [...]

Appearance is not everything – in information design, at least. Forget multiple colors, 3D views, speedometers and hyperactive interfaces. It’s the content that makes reports really exiting, especially [...]