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[rotred]

Why do these multimillion dollar companies have such shitty diagrams?

*edit: shitty as in pixelated; not the content

[wmf → rotred]

You want the shitty diagrams because those come from actual engineers. The beautiful ones come from marketing.

[Ar-Curunir → wmf]

This is a really poor excuse. Just because you're technical doesn't mean you're not responsible for presenting your content in a appealing and clean way.

[typon → wmf]

Being an engineer doesn't mean you have zero design mindset. Engineers make beautiful diagrams too.

[generatorguy → typon]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder. A diagram that conveys the information that took the minimum amount of time to generate and has the aesthetic that appeals to the engineer is beautiful. Maybe you have different taste?

[rotred → generatorguy]

My comment was concerning the quality of the image not the content. The pictures in the article are pixelated.

[washadjeffmad → typon]

Point was, you're not likely to get a purely functional resource out of marketing, not whether engineers are capable of producing marketing-quality materials.

[rotred → wmf]

My comment was concerning the quality of the image not the content. The pictures in the article are pixelated.

[snagglegaggle → rotred]

They didn't spend all their money making diagrams, duh.