SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: ZUI hatred
RE: SIGIA-L: ZUI hatred
From: Christopher Fahey [askrom] (askROM_at_graphpaper.com)
Date: Sat Mar 23 2002 - 01:21:21 EST
David Heller wrote:
> David Small's work:
> 1. His Talmud GUI
> 2. His Genome GUI
> Both of these for me work quite well.
Yes, the David Small stuff is certainly beautiful:
http://www.aec.at/festival2000/bilder/showresTERMIN.asp?TERMIN=1522
...but if you are trying to find a particular bit of information in the
Talmud, I seriously suspect you'd be a heck of a lot better off with a
regular old web page, a search engine, or even a plain old paperback
book.
I don't want to be lumped in with the philistines in the IA community
who like to pick on art projects for violating the laws of corporate
usability, but I just don't buy that Small's interface is empirically
easier to use than a plain old HTML web site with a hyperlinked index
and a search page:
http://www.aishdas.org/webshas/index.htm
Let's not confuse "beautiful" with "practical". The two can (and
should!) go together, but ZUI ain't it. Maybe a zooming interface is
useful, say, for finding stuff on a map, but this is not at all what
Raskin was talking about.
-Cf
[christopher eli fahey]
art: http://www.graphpaper.com
sci: http://www.askrom.com
biz: http://www.behaviordesign.com
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