Edward Tufte Weighs in on WP7S

Tufte gives his thoughts on the Windows Phone 7 Series interface (There’s a name). He doesn’t seem too impressed but no one has actually used it yet so maybe the end result will be better, but I personally doubt it. Also the comments are worth checking out, they have some good ideas and points.
Some pop out points:

Design at the actual scale of the final device.
Design for the product not the keynote.

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