A six part series on making maps from the Chicago Tribune that has this gem in the first post:
Back to the beer-fueled map talk… so, how can we do this better? The answer quickly became obvious: borrow from paper. What’s great about paper maps?
- Paper maps are BIG
- Paper maps are high resolution (measured by DPI *and* information-density)
- Paper maps are general at a distance and specific up close
What if most things on your page design didn’t jump, spin or flop on mouse-over?
Could you still delivery your content effectively?
Or have you mistaken interactivity for being effective?
On the other hand, are paper maps non-interactive?
I ask because I saw a book this past weekend that had no moving parts, popups, etc., but reading it you would swear it was interactive.
More on that in a future post.
I first saw this at PeteSearch.