iPhone Resolution by Edward Tufte

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The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information--too often leaving users with "Where am I?" puzzles. Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space rather than stacked in time.
To do so requires increasing the information resolution of the screen by the hardware (higher resolution screens) and by screen design (eliminating screen-hogging computer administrative debris, and distributing information adjacent in space).
This video shows some of the resolution-enhancing methods of the iPhone, along with a few places for improvements in resolution.
ET January 24, 2008
For works by Edward Tufte please go to www.edwardtufte.com

[@BrooksColeHOLO]

I am incredibly happy to see Professor Tufte opining so insightfully on the iPhone interface. For years I thought him antagonistic to anything digital and interactive. It seemed his thesis was that paper was inevitably superior as a means of visually displaying quantitative information, and that he didn't include interactivity and temporality as tools to convey this information. But now I see that he was waiting for sufficient resolution -- in space, time, and interaction, to emerge.

[@BILL8032]

I hope you post more videos, not just your art work. You have a great website and I hope other viewers will visit it.

[@SaturnsOuterRing]

I really like Prof. Tufte's critical analysis but I'm not sure I get his humor... "this is an iPhone jailbreak, don't try this at home". ??? did I miss something?