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September 16, 2007
Micro/Macro Readings - Jiaxin (Jason)
I found a very interesting thing. It is a conceptual demo of a new way to surf the internet, using zooming to solve the navigation problems posed by our present system of links, tab, and other click-and-go-there interfaces, which is an interesting exploration of Micro/Macro visual information design.
I think, for a visual information design, the amount of information should be balanced with the system's navigation ability. Sometimes, I feel trapped in mass information on the internet, site by site, page by page, tag by tag, link to link. I could not navigate easily or get a macroview. There is some tools like Google helping us, but not enough. In my mind, there should be something like an operating system for internet.
For the Zooming example, if it can automatically generate detail along each "link" while zooming in, that's a clean way to provide information, and you can always sort of see the related micro/macro information at the same time to some level.
Posted by Armin at September 16, 2007 12:07 AM