• Reported by Nate

Flazoom points to lots and lots of flash based infographics from designers in Spain (a testament to the work is how readable I found the information to be, without knowing the language). These nice examples of flash infographics brought me to wonder if Tufte had addressed the use of Flash for infographic purposes. I was very pleased with his response, partially quoted here:

Among the goals of good information design, maximizing local usability is not the highest--although you want to do the best you can to reduce adminstrative clutter and inconvenience. More important is the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content; making high-resolution comparisons; showing process, mechanism, dynamics, causality, explanation; and capturing in our displays some of the multivariate complexity of the world we seek to understand. If achieving these higher-level goals takes us to inconvenient display techologies, so be it.