What makes good information design? According to Information is Beautiful: * Information needs to be interesting (meaningful & relevant) and have integrity (accuracy, consistency). * Design needs to have form (beauty & structure) and function (it has to work and be easy to use). In information design, it seems, if you have just two elements, you get something tolerable and cool. i.e. * integrity + form = eye candy * interestingness + function = experiment But if you combine three elements without the fourth, things suddenly FAIL: * interesting subject, solid information, looks great, but is hard to use = useless. * amazing data, well designed, very easy to read but isn’t that interesting = boring via information is beautiful