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Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by sunshinekitty »

chromy wrote: post #17

Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs: - https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' ( https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/ ) Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software. Not on the data side but can be usefu…

The zachtronics website is completely broken on mobile with constant full-screening images, had to re-open my browser to exit..

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by VectorLock »

cluckindan wrote: post #63
wackget wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who recently tried to use Blender for an extremely simple task... Blender's UI is absolutely terrible and should not be used as an example of anything except how to design an unintuitive UI.

It is geared towards keyboard use, but I agree, the UI is not structured very well - too much mystery meat!

Sometimes I watch HOWTOs with Blender and it says stuff like "Hit NumPad +" and it makes me think, damn they going to tell me to start using the META key next?

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by the_svd_doctor »

abound wrote: post #21

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. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/

This is incredible. Almost feels like another world.

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by fourside »

abound wrote: post #21

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. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/

It’s one of the first examples in the link the OP shared. It’s a high quality post!

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Post by quacksilver »

abound wrote: post #21

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. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/

RS is similar though was better in the past

example: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=zync+7010

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Post by agumonkey »

CleanCoder wrote: post #39
agumonkey wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And there's something utilitarian in its internal and external design. No flashy, no fancy.. 99% informational and low lag.

The low lag part is especially impressive. Here is Wes Bos taking a deeper dive into the intricacies of technologies used to accomplish this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8KhQ

I remember people digging into this because it used good sense over vanilla js instead of complicated stack.

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by jotux »

abound wrote: post #21

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. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/

Similarly good, but small mechanical component specific: https://shop.sdp-si.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

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Post by radiorental »

Grafana can get pretty info dense very quickly. Try some of the dashboards or the Explore feature here https://play.grafana.org/

I worked there as a product designer for a couple of years, I now work on even more data dense UI in the cyber security domain, e.g. https://elastio.com/blog/cyber-recovery/three-clicks-to-rans...

As with almost all UI design the answer is "It Depends". If you could provide a little more context around the domain you're working in I'm sure I could point you at some specific examples

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