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More On NASA, PowerPoint, and Tufte

In a follow-up to Jeff’s earlier post, here’s a link to Tufte’s website, where you may purchase The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, and his classic, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (which is required reading for all communication professionals). While his essay is only available for purchase, you can read his analysis of a key Boeing slide here, which is a case study in its own right. Some other informative resources: * Scott Steffens writes about Tufte’s essay here at his Contact Sheet weblog, and comments on Tufte’s and Jakob Nielsen’s contradictory advice on how to present information online. * The New Yorker published an article by Ian Parker, titled Absolute PowerPoint, which is worth reading. * Aaron Swartz posts a parody of Tufte’s essay … his argument presented as a PowerPoint outline … here (also on a weblog). * We posted here the Gettysburg Address via PowerPoint. * Last but not least, you may find our own guidance, CRA’s one-page Principles of PowerPoint, here.
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Posted by Alan Nelson on December 14, 2003 02:19 PM |

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this is interesting and helpful, thanks.

Posted by: John | January 5, 2004 03:26 PM

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