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    simplicity rocks

    Design principle: keep it simple


    The analysts who are trying to assess the health of
    CRMFreak are not interested in being dazzled.
    What they want to do is to be able to make the best
    decisions about CRMFreak’s data as they can.
    Which of these spreadsheets do you think will do the
    best job of facilitating that sort of thinking?

    Here is the one that the CEO did.


    This one is plain and unadorned.

    The spreadsheet on the right has Both spreadsheets have the same data.
    excessive formatting that gets in the way
    of your ability to understand the data.
    The spreadsheet on the left is very
    simple, but perfectly clear.
    Keeping it simple makes for better
    thinking about data.

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