The whitespace craze is directly at odds with Tufte-ite principles on good information design - for knowledge workers there is a delicate balance between establ

The whitespace craze is directly at odds with Tufte-ite principles on good information design - for knowledge workers there is a delicate balance between establishing hierarchy via whitespace and producing visualizations which are appropriately dense with information. My guess is that the root cause as usual comes from designers not being consumers of the product - if they were, this trade off would be obvious.