January 24, 2008 - 4 comments

Edward Tufte on the iPhone

Still from iPhone Resolution by Edward Tufte

From Ask E.T.:

The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information—too often leaving users with "Where am I?" puzzles. Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space rather than stacked in time.

To do so requires increasing the information resolution of the screen by the hardware (higher resolution screens) and by screen design (eliminating screen-hogging computer administrative debris, and distributing information adjacent in space).

This video shows some of the resolution-enhancing methods of the iPhone, along with a few places for improvements in resolution.

Read the rest of Tufte's thought's and view the video here.

Thanks for sending this to us, Aline!

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John Caswell
March 2, 2008 at 5:08 am

Tufte is a hero and the material he puts out is astonishing. It’s quite sobering that so few actually understand the criticality of his work and it’s relationship to humanity. Thanks so much for bringing it up here. Keep it up. Great stuff… John

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John Caswell
March 2, 2008 at 5:08 am

Tufte is a hero and the material he puts out is astonishing. It’s quite sobering that so few actually understand the criticality of his work and it’s relationship to humanity. Thanks so much for bringing it up here. Keep it up. Great stuff… John

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Dave Fletcher
March 3, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Tufte is certainly one of our hero’s at theMechanism – not to mention required reading. It’s great to see your commentary on this particular post, John.

Cheers!

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Dave Fletcher
March 3, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Tufte is certainly one of our hero’s at theMechanism – not to mention required reading. It’s great to see your commentary on this particular post, John.

Cheers!

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