Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufteis an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful design buttons
Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
dog real book
I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.
data confusion design
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.
design rescue
Design cannot rescue failed content.
drug software company
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
argument cognitive design key tasks turned
The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.
teaching hands hands-on-experience
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.