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Summary: Lots of good examples
Review: An excellent book with lots of nice color photos and diagrams. Shows and talks about examples and solutions for informing travellers, explaining how things work, controlling input, interfacing with the screen, exploring the 3-d interface, and map systems.
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Summary: put your money elsewhere
Review: At first glance, this book looked exciting. However, once I started to (try to) read it, I found this book, itself, to be poorly designed. Emphasis seemed to be on slick, glossy pages rather than on content--unfortunate, because my initial appraisal had been, "Great! Full color examples". Sadly, it didn't live up to my expectations. There are better books out there. Over all, worth a glance but not a purchase unless you are just building a group library of information graphics books. I also agree with another reviewer who felt that some of the example designs were not very good.
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Summary: useful, but not a classic
Review: Helpful, interesting, although not a classic in the same way that, say, Tufte's Envisioning Information is. For every piece of good design in this book, there's another piece which strikes me as quite bad (the Internet map sites in particular suffer from jumbled, cluttered, confusing interfaces). But this book is still a valuable resource for people interested in this kind of stuff.
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