I can appreciate the author's plea against data being used as prescriptive recommendations for interface design, but I feel like her analogy to Le Corbusier is

I can appreciate the author's plea against data being used as prescriptive recommendations for interface design, but I feel like her analogy to Le Corbusier is strained. I'll admit to having gone through a "Bauhaus" phase many years ago (a single Le Corbusier lounge is all that remains from it), but I don't think that her criticisms of Le Corbusier's architecture are particularly well-suited to her thesis. I can buy that there has been a growing consensus since his death that his ideas for "new urbanism" are cold and uncomfortable, but they are not the result of "prescriptive data"; they are the result of his worldview and what he believed the purpose of architecture was. I don't necessarily agree with his view in that regard, but it doesn't strike me as any different than a user interface designer arbitrarily deciding where buttons go based on what they think is correct.