No doubt there are significant improvements to be made on the iPhone, but I'm not sure I agree with all Tufte's criticisms.
"The weather pages are a bit thin. Why not show a dynamic weather map, more detailed forecasts..." "To clarify, add detail; and clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures in design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design." For sure this statement holds some truth, but I'm not sure I agree with his argument on the weather maps. I don't want to start a PC-Mac debate, but Tufte's weather map suggestion looked like a design straight from the pages of Microsoft's Best Practice manual. The iPhone design boils down to the "Zen aesthetic". Check out this Presentation Zen article that compares Gates and Jobs on Keynote/PowerPoint: http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/the_zen_estheti .html Sums a lot of it up I think... Austin Mansu Information Architect Executive | OneDigital Pty Limited ______________________________________________________________________ m. + 61 (0)411 015 232 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] w. www.onedigital.com.au ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
