Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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Page 59
... writes : " Stripes are dazzling , sometimes hypnotic , usually happy .... Stripes attract attention .... The stripes of the IBM logo serve primarily as an attention - getting device . They take commonplace letters out of the realm of ...
... writes : " Stripes are dazzling , sometimes hypnotic , usually happy .... Stripes attract attention .... The stripes of the IBM logo serve primarily as an attention - getting device . They take commonplace letters out of the realm of ...
Page 79
... writes Richard Altick , employing a parallel structure.1 In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Edward Gibbon describes the spread of Christianity in prose filled with intricate parallels . Repetitions , elaborations , and contrasts ...
... writes Richard Altick , employing a parallel structure.1 In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Edward Gibbon describes the spread of Christianity in prose filled with intricate parallels . Repetitions , elaborations , and contrasts ...
Page 148
... writes : " The effect of graphic design in many publications , then - even when it is handsome design— is the fragmentation or subordination of the text . The result affects no less than how we think : the broken page delivers ...
... writes : " The effect of graphic design in many publications , then - even when it is handsome design— is the fragmentation or subordination of the text . The result affects no less than how we think : the broken page delivers ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 42 |
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Ad Reinhardt Albrecht Dürer analysis Anatomy of Melancholy architecture audience blow-by Broad Street pump Catich cause Center for Supercomputing chart cholera color comparisons computer screen confections conjuring contrast cosmonauts deaths from cholera depict described diagrams disinformation design display drawing Edward Tufte epidemic erosion evidence example explain Feynman field joint flap flight Foureye butterflyfish Georgi Grechko glass graph Grechko grid hand History of O-Ring Humphry Repton illustration information design interface John Snow launch the space letters Leviathan lines London magic magician method multiple images NASA O-ring O-ring damage O-Ring Temp Painting parallel PCSSCA perspective photograph pre-launch PRIMARY O-RING quantitative redesign Redrawn reveal Richard Feynman rockets scale Science sequence serif shown shows smallest effective difference Snow's space shuttle Challenger spatial statistical graphics story sunspots Supercomputing Applications temperature Thiokol time-series trick two-dimensional viewers visual words York