[Sigia-l] Edward Tufte

[Karl Fast]

> What I feel is that we are doing post mortem to a great guy 'Edward
> Tufti' with our own convenience.

Tufte's work is excellent and important.

However, his work is largely independent of interaction. The idea
that people will interact with the information systems we architect
is THE key element that separates our work from his.

Of course his work is relevant to IA, and ours relevant to his. But
they are only related; they are not the same. When he says "no need
for user testing" I suspect that he is downplaying the difference
between designing visual representations and interactive visual
representations.

Interaction is not a benign ingredient. It's a catalyst (yes, I'm
mixing metaphors but it's friday afternoon).


--karl