Design Principles for Visual Communication

摘要

visual communic ation via diagrams, sketches, charts, photographs, video, and animation is fundamental to the process of exploring concepts and disseminating information. The most-effective visualizations capitalize on the human facility for processing visual information, thereby improving comprehension, memory, and inference. Such visualizations help analysts quickly find patterns lurking within large data sets and help audiences quickly understand complex ideas. Over the past two decades a number of books101518'23 have collected examples of effective visual displays. One thing is evident from inspecting them: the best are carefully crafted by skilled human designers.