iPhone interface design

Ask E.T.: iPhone interface design

From Tufte's comments and criticisms on the iPhone interface: "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, fix the design."

Overall, he approves, but his comments have interesting applications to the reporting and data heavy interface I'm working on for my day job. The first step in "cleaning up" the interface may not be to throw everything out and start from zero, intending to make the simplest thing possible. That may have the benefit of producing a clean or attractive interface, but may not meet the goal of a more useful interface.