{"id":46,"date":"2006-01-25T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/01\/25\/the-big-duck\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:41:42","slug":"the-big-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2006\/01\/25\/the-big-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline_image\" alt=\"Big Duck\" src=\"\/wp-images\/inline\/big_duck.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Garr over at Presentation Zen has mentioned &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr.nps.gov\/nr\/twhp\/wwwlps\/lessons\/6roadside\/6visual2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the big duck<\/a>&#8221; a few times.  I love the metaphor, and it strikes me as rekated to Tufte&#8217;s cautions about decorating data. <\/p>\n<p>It seems that we designers need to check ourselves evey so oftern to make sure we&#8217;re not just making glorious big ducks, but actually doing what&#8217;s best to solve the problems real people really experience. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garr over at Presentation Zen has mentioned &#8220;the big duck&#8221; a few times. I love the metaphor, and it strikes me as rekated to Tufte&#8217;s cautions about decorating data. It seems that we designers need to check ourselves evey so oftern to make sure we&#8217;re not just making glorious big ducks, but actually doing what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}