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Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure: if the numbers are boring you have the wrong numbers.

Drawn from what Edward Tufte said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

In the currents ondesignunder our current: It is honest and it is felt: speed, behaviour and truth matter more than looks On the topicWhat makes a design good?under our view: Good design is honest, and it outlasts fashion

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What Edward Tufte actually said

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  1. Edward Tufte

    Statistician and professor emeritus at Yale

    If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

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    ↗PowerPoint Is Evilwired.com

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