[TeMPOraL]

I'd say Google is widely recognized for "taking poor use of screen real-estate to an art form" with their designs; though Material design is probably just a symptom here, the cause being the ongoing desire to dumb down applications and remove functionality.

[pjmlp]

Actually a typical rant on Android development forums is how Google doesn't follow their own Material designs.

[TeMPOraL]

Maybe. Still, I go to material.io and I don't see anything there that would make those things better.

I wish there was a UI philosophy that would take Tufte's ideas as a set of core principles: maximizing data-ink ratio, minimizing junk, increasing data density.

[aeorgnoieang]

> I wish there was a UI philosophy that would take Tufte's ideas as a set of core principles

Wouldn't that just be Tufte's ideas? What's missing for it to be a 'UI philosophy'?

[TeMPOraL]

A nice .io domain and endorsement by a hot tech company, I guess.