This is of course a great, well-written post, clearly summarising various important and even immutable principles that have been part of information design for over 25 years.
Too bad the vast majority of designers being paid to create UIs today not only won't read it, but wouldn't understand how to even use it. UI design today is utterly full of fail because the people doing it are so far away from the type of thinking in this post that they wouldn't know a well-designed information space if it exploded in their custard.
Too bad the vast majority of designers being paid to create UIs today not only won't read it, but wouldn't understand how to even use it. UI design today is utterly full of fail because the people doing it are so far away from the type of thinking in this post that they wouldn't know a well-designed information space if it exploded in their custard.