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Re:Terraforming 1Password by epistasis on Saturday January 27, 2018 @03:06PM (#16247840)
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.

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Re:Terraforming 1Password by sneak on Saturday January 27, 2018 @04:57PM (#16248316)
Take it up with BeOS? :D
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Re:Terraforming 1Password by epistasis on Saturday January 27, 2018 @05:57PM (#16248585)
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.
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