Reading this conversation with Edward Tufte and some of his disciples, I picked up on two examples of flash based learning.
The first, an nbc ‘Enron 101′ was given as “the ultimate example of chart junk”. I actually quite enjoyed it, but the narrative was certainly competing with the constant ‘plops’ and crowded visuals. I think less noise and less grpahics – and this would have been pretty good.
The second is the MoMa’s ‘what is a print?’ a beautiful interactive learning piece on different printing techniques. I saw this a while back, it won some award (webby?) and is just superb…
In terms of the article, Tufte talks up praystation and says while the navigation is subtle to the point of obfuscation, it’s ok ‘cos it’s art and the ‘interface police’ won’t ned to resort to ‘heavy breathing’. So *that’s* ok then!