UX News Round-Up
“Small Pond, Smart Fish”
The latest from Coroflot’s Creative Seeds blog contends that Design Capitals are “rarely the best locations to start a career.” Rather than eking out a living in some of the most expensive cities in the world, going deeper into debt, at a temporary internship getting “small pieces of pick-up work”–why not go somewhere “less sexy”, where you have a better chance to develop the “solid, concept-to-market pieces that make a portfolio shine?” The author, speaking from his own experience, notes, not only had all the senior designers he knew in New York City gotten their start somewhere else, but most of the alumni he’d kept in touch with had followed a progression similar to his: away from Design Capitals.
Ask E.T.: Tufte on the iPhone
Edward Tufte offers some insight into his opinion on the iPhone interface with a new video and some still-land material out of his 1997 book, Visual Explanations. By increasing “information resolution”, reducing “computer admin debris”, integrating “text, images and video” in a “flat, non-hierarchical interface”, and replacing “spacious icons with tight words,” Tufte explains, “the metaphor for the interface is the information. Thus the iPhone got it mostly right.”
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