It struck me that Tufte’s description of “administrative debris” and its opposite, which I suppose might be called “proper interface/content integration” or an “information interface,” may finally explain my penchant for hypertext as a user interface medium for many types of information display. HTML, and the web’s basic architecture in general, is designed in such a way that demands that interface elements related to navigation and moving through content, areas prone to administrative debris, occur in a way that’s naturally suited to the content.
With hypertext, the information itself is the interface.
In which less is proven to be about right.
Administrative Debris It struck me that Tufte’s description of “administrative debris” and its opposite, which I suppose might […]