Experiments in simplification

Julien D. sent us to this link, where a design agency picks up everyday objects and investigates what happens if the designs were to be simplified. Here is Nutella simplified:

I reckon this should be wonderful inspiration for chart designers.

Take your final design, remove components and interrogate whether you need those components.

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Comments

[Ken]

Essential with charts, reports and academic papers, to strip everything back to the minimum, and keep to a simple message.

[MultiplyLeaders]

Exactly what we need! A simple vision for improvement. More posts like this!!

[Basil]

I believe it would be interesting to caculate a multi-trait multi-method matrix with the three different tests. See how the correlation between each subject relates to one another.