I've read most of Tufte's books. And I tend to agree with them 90+% of the time.
But anecdote is not the plural of data. Pretty is not automatically effective.
Nielsen Norman Group occasionally hit some unusual exceptions when they actually tested their assumptions about web usability even though they got most of it right. I suspect the same with Tufte.
But anecdote is not the plural of data. Pretty is not automatically effective.
Nielsen Norman Group occasionally hit some unusual exceptions when they actually tested their assumptions about web usability even though they got most of it right. I suspect the same with Tufte.