Since I’m currently working on a new application for our help desk, we’ve been evaluating features in other, existing applications. We considered, among others, a hosted solution called “Service Now.”
Immediately after logging into the demo site, we saw this traumatizing departure from any known laws of graphic design:
Pie Chart à la Awful
Someone has evidently decided that since 3D pie charts are known to distort human perception of data, what will really make them useful is a layer of translucency.
June 9th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I can sum it up in one word: ifnull(location, ‘not specified’)
November 24th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Ugly _and_ harder to read = win + win!