Design Quotes by Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

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Information

Maps

Edward Tufte

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Beautiful

Design

Practice

Edward Tufte

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Design

Rescue

Edward Tufte

Here’s the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

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Details

Edward Tufte

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Design

Firsts

Practice

Edward Tufte

Simple design, intense content.

Consciousness

Design

Simple

Edward Tufte

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Art

Design

Science

Edward Tufte

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Design

Essentials

Understanding

Edward Tufte

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.

Design

Giving

Simple

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Art

Audience

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Book

Cartoon

Color

Common

Computer

Confusion

Consciousness

Cost

Data

Design

Details

Differences

Discipline

Discussion

Distinction

Dog

Empty

Essentials

Ethical

Evidence

Firsts

Forever

Giving

Harm

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Information

Interesting

Kind

Law

Leadership

Life And Death

Long

Making Changes

Maps

Mean

Method

Mind

Nature

Open Mind

Order

Overhead

People

Power Of Love

Practice

Process

Profound

Real

Realizing

Relevant

Rescue

Science

Should

Shows

Simple

Simplicity

Style

Subtle

Support

Technology

Thinking

Tools

Truth

Understanding

World

Writing

Years

Design Quotes by Edward Tufte

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

Here’s the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don’t start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

Simple design, intense content.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

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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