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by bernardom 4403 days ago
Wow, so much hate here.

I like the re-design. Yes, he makes it readable by reducing some information. But it's a lot easier to read. Sometimes that's a good trade-off.

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I don't know. I find the originals easier to read. I don't think the new design understands the information and its meaning.

Take slide 15 for example, changing a histogram into a bubble chart. Aesthetically it looks nicer, but when you try to comprehend the data it's more difficult. For example, easily comparing side by side bars is easier than trying to determine the difference in bubble sizes. One of the main points of Meeker's slide is that there is $30B in opportunity in the difference between Internet and Mobile time spent vs. ad spend. This is completely gone visually in the redesign and now adds a sentence to describe in text "Underspending on Internet and Mobile"