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Web design for Tufte is vacant of anything useless. He dislikes task bars, menu bars, status bars, and anything that restricts display space that could be used for useful content. Graphics should also be limited to what is purely essential. Animated ads, elaborate navigational bars distract and numb the audience. The use of frames in web design is one of Tufte's most lingering criticisms. He feels that the purpose of frames is solely to fill up space and add more useless information."Tufte feels that the main measure of a web site (or any computer interface) should be the percentage of the screen that is actually devoted to the task at hand."

Despite his dislikes, Tufte does give designers some insight into what could improve web design overall. "Clear thinking made visible." For him a design should move away from simplistic and open up the idea of the user as a partner in learning.

link to Tufte's tips on good web design