Across
- 4. The design goal of securing audience approval for a visual display by actively overcoming natural resistance to change.
- 5. Visual elements that occupy space on a page or display but add no informative value, needlessly increasing cognitive load.
- 6. a bar chart recommended by Knaflic for pulling apart total values to show incremental positive and negative changes.
- 8. German psychological principles defining how the brain subconsciously groups discrete visual elements into a unified whole.
Down
- 1. The 80/20 principle stated by Dykes to justify aggregating the "long tail" of small data segments into "other" category.
- 2. The design principle that data displays must be understandable by audiences of all technical skill levels.
- 3. The Gestalt principle stating that visual elements positioned physically close together are perceived as a related group.
- 5. Tufte's term for non-essential visual elements.
- 7. Tufte's classic ratio, aka signal-to-noise ratio.