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Good design is, amongst others, making sure your headline font isn't too thin to render nicely on your target platforms and your body text is easy to read. It
by benohear 15y ago
Good design is, amongst others, making sure your headline font isn't too thin to render nicely on your target platforms and your body text is easy to read.
It is also avoiding pie charts in general (see Tufte for an explanation), and definitely those with just two data points.
Content-wise, the key message seems to be that AirBNB, Apple and a few others place a high value on visual design and are successful, therefore you should emulate that in order to be successful yourself.
I've got to say, it's all a bit superficial for my taste. Others might find it a good starting point, especially for some of the referenced resources.
- overcyn 15y agoIf anything aren't pie charts best with 2 data points? The more slices you get the harder it becomes to read.
- benohear 15y agoYou have a point, but then what value do they add?
- ChrisNorstrom 15y agoLooks. That's all. Pie Charts are terrible for comparing anything because of the way the brain understands and interprets shapes, length, and size as a quantity. Someone came up with pie-charts a while back, others thought it looked cool, and it unfortunately stuck around. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-charts/ http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/the-problem-with-pie-c...
- DanBC 15y agoThe original example - Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagram - is an excellent example of presenting information. Unfortunately, pie charts stuck around and they're usually lousy. (http://www.economist.com/node/10278643?story_id=10278643 http://www.economist.com/node/10278643?story_id=10278643) EDIT: And this article explains the problems: (http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/2008/01/nightingales-rose/ http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/2008/01/nightingales-rose/)
- tlrobinson 15y agoI thought the pie charts were a good way to show that "[they] are thinking about the same things" because at a glance you can see the charts are roughly the same shape.
- tel 15y agoTo follow the Dieter Rams quote, good design is "as little design as possible". Those pie charts each display 6 pieces of information and are intended to compare and contrast those data points in 3 contexts. 18 points. When you realize how little message is actually contained there then they seem to be less about telling you something useful and more about looking pretty.