Reading Response – Danny

Tufte Article:

Tufte used to be on the reading list in my interface studio last year.  I tend to think the information he provided was kind of dated.  I don’t know if I fully agree this article since it does have its point, but at the same time it kind of killing the design.  His thought was to the maximize the data-ink ratio.   I can totally see that in Design and Coding process which matches his ideas of making it as simple as it can.  Sometimes I wonder if it’s too simple since it almost becoming a bare-bone structure.  We do want to make it as simple as possible, and reduce all the redundant data, but  if it worth to reduce all the “ink”(sometimes it’s for design purpose.).  Revise and edit is just the standard design process.

Christiane Paul Article:

Organized and categorized information is so important in our life since we are overwhelming with the amount of data we generated in internet age.    The more information we have which mean we need to find a better way to organized, managed, displayed and distributed it.  The article sort of talks about the database existed in different media.  I wonder what’s his thought of the ways we access the database these days.  All the different API and not standardized database structure.  Do we need to find a solution with a uniform way to access most of databases.