Simple design, intense content.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

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

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

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.