screen-based interfaces are very poor at conveying size, weight, and spatial arrangements. one effort is to make interfaces that are tangible – using real-world objects and spaces. another is to endlessly refine the screen-based stuff so that it gives a better illusion of what it represents. sizeasy is part of a growing number of web services that compare products, in this case by visualizing the relative sizes of popular gadgets. there’s something powerful about helping make physical characteristics perceived in abstract interfaces, especially when so much marketing and design aims to trick the senses. maybe the truth has a place in design after all?
seeing size
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