Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.

Design cannot rescue failed content.