I am reading this right now since I can't sleep (I was expecting the book to put me to sleep) and you are right, it's a lot more enjoyable. The author admitted that he ignored emotions in his first book.
I just went to E. Tufte's one day class yesterday. It was not as useful as it'd been hyped up to be.
However, I don't think he was just all about numbers. He did have a great deal of knowledge on how to present the information in general. The main component that's lacking in his books/class was understanding of the users as an average person on the street with no scientific background.
He actually said, " yeah it's good to know your audience but it really doesn't matter." and he was all about 'high resolution' data. In my opinion, there's such a thing as reducing the resolution (by resolution, he means data/information) for the sake of clarity.
From all the books I've read, Robin William's Non-Designer's Design Book is probably the most effective book to teach myself some visual and graphic design.
Another good one is Steve Krug's 'Don't make me think'. But it's more web design than graphic design.
The old classic 'Design of Everyday Things' is very dry and it probably was really useful when most people didn't know the usability fundamentals. But now, it just seems like everyone already knows the basic principles and it's not adding much more value anymore.
I, for one, am a citizen of a country where it's illegal to hold ANY foreign currency, whether it's in my bank account or in cash unless you own a business with a special license to conduct business with foreign sources. Of course, it takes a few years to get that special license if you comply with due process.
The government intends to keep the citizens as disconnected from the outside world as they can. It's true there are not that many countries like this but some still exist to this day.
So here are the numbers to back up your claim.
Lowest Quintile earns $10,000 in 1977. They earn $8,400 in 1999. (difference : -1600)
Second Quintile earns $23,700 in 1977. They earn $21,200 in 1999. (difference : -2600)
Third Quintile earns $36,400 in 1977. They earn $35,400 in 1999. (differene : -1000)
Fourth Quintile earns $49,300 in 1977. They earn $53,000 in 1999. (difference : +3700)
Highest Quintile earns $94,300 in 1977. They earn $132,000 in 1999. (difference : +37700)
all numbers in 1995 dollars - for US.
Let's see.. Who is heavily taxed?
I am an engineer who earns in the 60-70K range. My federal tax rate -- about 28%.
My CEO who earns 100K in salary. He pays his 30+% tax rate on the 100K income. The other $11M in stocks he just received? he pays 15% tax rate cause it's categorized as capital gains. So what's his average tax rate?
So yeah of course the CEO is OH SO HEAVILY TAXED! CRY ME A RIVER FOR HIM and all the other CEOs of the world.
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I am reading this right now since I can't sleep (I was expecting the book to put me to sleep) and you are right, it's a lot more enjoyable. The author admitted that he ignored emotions in his first book.
I just went to E. Tufte's one day class yesterday. It was not as useful as it'd been hyped up to be. However, I don't think he was just all about numbers. He did have a great deal of knowledge on how to present the information in general. The main component that's lacking in his books/class was understanding of the users as an average person on the street with no scientific background. He actually said, " yeah it's good to know your audience but it really doesn't matter." and he was all about 'high resolution' data. In my opinion, there's such a thing as reducing the resolution (by resolution, he means data/information) for the sake of clarity. From all the books I've read, Robin William's Non-Designer's Design Book is probably the most effective book to teach myself some visual and graphic design. Another good one is Steve Krug's 'Don't make me think'. But it's more web design than graphic design. The old classic 'Design of Everyday Things' is very dry and it probably was really useful when most people didn't know the usability fundamentals. But now, it just seems like everyone already knows the basic principles and it's not adding much more value anymore.
I, for one, am a citizen of a country where it's illegal to hold ANY foreign currency, whether it's in my bank account or in cash unless you own a business with a special license to conduct business with foreign sources. Of course, it takes a few years to get that special license if you comply with due process. The government intends to keep the citizens as disconnected from the outside world as they can. It's true there are not that many countries like this but some still exist to this day.
So here are the numbers to back up your claim.
Lowest Quintile earns $10,000 in 1977. They earn $8,400 in 1999. (difference : -1600)
Second Quintile earns $23,700 in 1977. They earn $21,200 in 1999. (difference : -2600)
Third Quintile earns $36,400 in 1977. They earn $35,400 in 1999. (differene : -1000)
Fourth Quintile earns $49,300 in 1977. They earn $53,000 in 1999. (difference : +3700)
Highest Quintile earns $94,300 in 1977. They earn $132,000 in 1999. (difference : +37700)
all numbers in 1995 dollars - for US.
Let's see.. Who is heavily taxed?
I am an engineer who earns in the 60-70K range. My federal tax rate -- about 28%.
My CEO who earns 100K in salary. He pays his 30+% tax rate on the 100K income. The other $11M in stocks he just received? he pays 15% tax rate cause it's categorized as capital gains. So what's his average tax rate?
So yeah of course the CEO is OH SO HEAVILY TAXED! CRY ME A RIVER FOR HIM and all the other CEOs of the world.