It wouldn’t be right to have a blog about design crimes, and not post examples and a link of highly inappropriate memorabilia from those work shy Photoshoppers on the B3ta.com forums.
This is a nice little illustration with the intention of showing how people are sucked into the social media timewasting void on a daily basis.
The type, tone and style is refined and slick, but the data shown is complete bollocks.
So the top of the pyramid is 1 hour.
The next level down is clearly the size of about 3 hours, but is actually only representing 2 hours, and it gets worse from there.
The amount of time people spend on entertainment looks to be around 16 hours, based on the 1 hour block at the top. Not the 3.5 hours shown.
More overdesigned toss crushing the life out of the underlying data. See here.
Sentence: Death by exposure to Excel standard format graphs shown at solar levels of brightness.
