Tufte on iPhone

14th February 2025 at 3:54pm

Late 2008 video from Edward Tufte on iPhone. I haven't heard Tufte speak before, but he has some insightful commentary:

After an image is selected, the entire screen becomes content. No computer administrative debris at all.

To clarify, add detail [...] Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information. Instead, fix the design.