lenger, causing the explosion that killed the astronauts. Tufte's principles of good information design. Tufte would have us sort them out in our own way. A logical conclusion to this review criticism of this is that Feynman's experiment is actually not a scientific experiment, but merely an experience. To have an is my attempt at distillation. This is a significant book for the information designer's bookshelf. It should be studied carefully. experiment, there must be a means of comparison. Because it does not, Tufte argues that Feynman's experiment turns out to So, I conclude with the following about good design. Good design focuses attention on the informational content. be an example of a dequantification of an explanatory demonstration.
Good design organizes visualized data to support claims, assertions, and meaning, and to achieve the communicative objec-Pictorial quantification or its lack are important design characteristics for the information designer. Dequantified images tives inherent in a design. Good design means that the logic of an image represents the logic of conceptual analysis. Good de-are not explanatory or analytical, merely descriptive. Tufte discusses several information design strategies to aid in the devel-sign in its structure represents good analysis. The structure of a well-designed image (for example, a visual confection) is opment of images that present visual explanations of experiences. They are visual parallelisms, visual multiples, and visual implicit and transparent, invisible. A design's structure does not interfere with the concepts portrayed. Good design is focused confections (a delightful notion).
For information design, visual confections are analogous to and straight forward. Good design demonstrates an awareness of how, when, and where the information may be used. Good collages. Confections are syntheses of visual events into a unified explanatory image. Visual nouns (any image that is visually design represents quantified ideas using noticeable distinctions to arrange comparisons and contrasts. Good design does not static) and visual verbs (images that represent action or change) intersect as a visual event. Visual confections describe and ex-dequantitize images and, consequently, ideas. Good design uses parallelisms, multiple images, and confections to structure and plain, analyze and compare, by constructing, as one image, visual representations of conditions and consequences. create clear and efficient images. Good design is the effective blending of visual nouns and verbs to represent the rhythm and Confections are visual ideas analogous to pragmatism's definition of concept. They are combinational devices that are balance of a visual event. used to pull images, and even text, together to represent complex ideas. Confections are visual stories. They are made up of informational layers which consist of multiples and parallelisms.
Robert J. Skovira Confections are used to put on visual informational perfor-Department of Computer and Information Systems mances; Tufte uses the metaphor of informational theater. Con-School of Communications and Information Systems fections are the ultimate rhetorical device of the informational Robert Morris College designer. They are made up of visual parallelisms and multiples.