One of Tufte's main premises is that there is no information overload. Instead, there is only a proliferation of poor design that does injustice to data and to the audience.
Alas, slideware often reduces the analytical quality of presentations. In particular, the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations?
As in-house counterterrorism expert with an 11-year term serving Clinton and both Bush administrations, Richard Clarke's Atlantic scenario is designed to make us think about the unintended consequneces of policy decisions since 9/11.
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by Dick Costolo, Burning Door (Forwarded by Kevin Kelly who describes this Venn Diagram as "almost Ed Tuftian in elegance.") Click for enlargement
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In the late 1970s, Christopher Alexander became an icon in the architecture world with his book, A Pattern Language.
Dave Pollard, a consultant on innovation and product development, posts his papers on business innovation & knowledge management. We found his article Innovation as Collaboration thanks to Innovation Tools. Pollard covers dozens of topics ranging from general creativity to concrete the blogging process with observations on why bloggers write and how to incorporate reader feedback. Being a consultant, the first question I asked them was about their innovation process. Specifically, I asked, how were customer needs, complaints and ideas routed from the front-line customer contacts (the sales and marketing people) to R&D. I got blank stares. New product ideas were developed in the laboratory, it seems, and the only customer input was from surveys and focus groups once the R&D people already had something to show them.
The best collaborative of American illustrators!