{"id":2447,"date":"2008-07-12T23:41:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T06:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2008-07-13T23:55:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T06:55:24","slug":"edward-tufte-on-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/edward-tufte-on-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Tufte on the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times weighs in on the iPhone&#8217;s success, and design usability hero <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/13\/technology\/13stream.html\">Edward Tufte gets a prominent mention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2448\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/iphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>In a recent article and accompanying video posted on his Web site, Edward Tufte, the information and visualization designer at Yale, argues that the iPhone\u2019s success is attributable in part to the decision by iPhone designers to dispense with clutter \u2014 all of the irritating buttons and menus that are part and parcel of a typical computer interface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe content is the interface, the information is the interface, not the computer administration debris,\u201d he said in a video critique of the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>He also notes that the iPhone succeeds by \u201cintensifying\u201d information, made possible in part by its higher resolution display and in part by packing more useful information in each display.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s products could use this approach. Honestly, we might use about a tenth of those grouped icon bars. To be fair, they&#8217;ve improved the clutter somewhat on Office 2008 for the Mac, but it&#8217;s only a faint start. Hopefully, the next (last?) version of Office is truly a Mac application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/edward-tufte-on-the-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times weighs in on the iPhone&#8217;s success, and design usability hero Edward Tufte gets a prominent mention. In a recent article and accompanying video posted on his Web site, Edward Tufte, the information and visualization designer at Yale, argues that the iPhone\u2019s success is attributable in part to the decision by iPhone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/edward-tufte-on-the-iphone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edward Tufte on the iPhone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/edward-tufte-on-the-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}