I didn't see anyone mention the McMaster-Carr website [1]. It may not be the "densest" out there, but it's clean, functional, and nicely presents a lot of information at once.
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#22WinDirStat or QDirStat
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#23I am developing this project, which replaces product lists with what I call "product charts": https://www.productchart.com The idea is to sort products not by one parameter (like price or release date) but by two - which creates an x/y chart. The product info is displayed dynamically - by default only the image is show. On hover, more info is displayed in a tooltip. And when you click "details", all data is shown. Th…
This is good. The users this caters to are also higher than normal earners. Hate to ask, but what is the monetization plan?
Affiliate commissions and license fees from companies who want to use the interface for their use-cases.
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#24Most ECAD software packages have very high information density - look at Altium Designer, Mentor XPedition, OrCAD Cadence, Proteus PCB, Eagle, or KiCAD for examples.
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#25I’ve been on a similar journey, and I haven’t found any good resources.
Much of the low-density trend can be traced back to Tailwind. I love the library, but I do find it frustrating that pretty much all designers lean towards low-density by default.
The problem is that it only works well for casual/consumer applications. Once you start building for professional, productivity-driven products, you need density.
One shining example I can think of is: https://usgraphics.com/
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#26Does the cockpit of a 747 count as "UI" for this task?
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#27I didn't see anyone mention the McMaster-Carr website [1]. It may not be the "densest" out there, but it's clean, functional, and nicely presents a lot of information at once. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/
of of course, RockAuto.com
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#28Airplane cockpits are an obvious example (but not on a computer screen, of course). All the controls readily available.
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#29I am developing this project, which replaces product lists with what I call "product charts": https://www.productchart.com The idea is to sort products not by one parameter (like price or release date) but by two - which creates an x/y chart. The product info is displayed dynamically - by default only the image is show. On hover, more info is displayed in a tooltip. And when you click "details", all data is shown. Th…
Good idea, but wow, the popup mechanism is obnoxious. It needs to be off to the side in a fixed location that doesn't obscure what you're looking at, or make you chase the 'Hide' button with your mouse.
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#30I recall seeing some discussion about the UI density Japanese websites (specifically Japanese news sites). For example: https://www.asahi.com/ Now that I think about it, news sites in general have fairly high density UIs, not that I consider them to be shining examples of great UIs. https://www.yahoo.com https://www.bloomberg.com/
Regarding Bloomberg, the Bloomberg Terminal is also a good example of a really information dense interface. There is a few videos on YouTube where Bloomberg shows examples of how to use their terminals.