Data-Centered Design

A single document window interface provides the best support for a simple, data-centered design and may be the easiest for users to learn; MDI supports a more conventional application-centered design. It is best suited to multiple views of the same data or contexts where the application does not represent views of user data. You can use workspaces, workbooks, and projects to provide single document window interfaces while preserving some of the management techniques provided by MDI.