Re:Terraforming 1Password
by smsm42 on Saturday January 27, 2018 @02:36PM
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I am not sure I get the point of making it (fake-)3D. Except for all text to be diagonal and me having to tilt my head to read it, and cute pseudo-3D pictures of variously formed boxes, I don't see any advantage. It's still essentially 2D - there's no third dimension I could usefully explore - it's just presented in a visually cute but informationally cluttering way. Is there any advantage to this form of presentation?
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It's funny, I came to the comments to specifically complain about that graphic. There are significant disadvantages to the isometric view for that data, and absolutely no advantage that I can see, other than it looks pretty if you're not trying to get information out of it.
I think that Tufte needs to make a resurgence with this generation of designers.
Take it up with BeOS? :D
Hah, I think icons are the place isometric views work really well, actually! Lots of room for highly differentiated objects with an isometric view. However, text and interconnections and maps are really not great at these isometric angles. And I do really like the icons used in the figure in the original post, just not the whole.
Re:Terraforming 1Password
by paulddraper on Sunday January 28, 2018 @11:47AM
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AWS has sometimes used in their diagrams, so everyone wants it when creating theirs. I work on https://www.lucidchart.com (which has "only" 2D diagrams) and it's a common request.
You're correct that 2D makes for greater readability and information density.