David McCandless of Information is Beautiful has posted a work in progress pondering the nature of successful information design as the intersection of accuracy, relevance, usefulness, and structure.
He sums up the idea in a classic Venn diagram and suggests that “if you have just two elements, you get something tolerable and cool [...] but if you combine three elements without the fourth, things suddenly fail.”
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What Makes Good Information Design
He sums up the idea in a classic Venn diagram and suggests that “if you have just two elements, you get something tolerable and cool [...] but if you combine three elements without the fourth, things suddenly fail.”
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