Tufte & Nielsen believe that screen real estate is one of the most important asset for a (UX) designer. Utilize available screen space - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: May 9, 2011 & The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte: May 2001.
Nielsen's review of Windows 8 had one specific point, 'Low Information Density' amongst others, saying that this leads to unnecessary scrolling on the users part and is bad UX.
On the other hand, you have the "Less is More" campaigners. Here's an UX booth article from Oct 2010, Less is More: Simplifying your User Experience. It has it's origin in the Arts and architecture with the minimalism movement. You see many websites being designed along these principles. Windows 8 is also pushing in this direction. The recent Facebook home also seems to be a good candidate for this design.
My question is: Is there any scenario where the "less is more" style holds true? If yes, is there any threshold value of sorts till which the minimalist concepts holds true (a couple page website vs. ecommerce website)?
Or, are these concepts unrelated?
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