A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. |
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences. |
Along with thirty-two years of being a professor at Princeton and Yale, I also greatly enjoy teaching out on the road. |
At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state. |
Beautiful Evidence follows a growing concern in my work: assessing the quality of evidence and of finding out the truth. |
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. |
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. |
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. |
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. |
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. |
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal-the great leader. |
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. |
In emphasizing evidential quality and beauty, I also want to move the practices of analytical design far away from the practices of propaganda, marketing, graphic design, and commercial art. |
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. |
It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases. |