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

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Command line system monitoring tools like htop, atop, btop, etc: https://static.linuxblog.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/btop....

Cisco IOS, highest density information per screen of old days CLI, like "sh int" (show interface) to get almost all required information at one glance.

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

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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/

I'm going to go against the crowd and say that I prefer DigiKey and Mouser's sites over McMaster. The filter/apply pattern they use when trying to narrow things down is a lot quicker than waiting for Mcmaster's auto updating window. Usually, when I'm looking for something, it's not for an exact specific item, but to know what options are even there in the first place. Selecting ranges of things in McMaster has always…

I kind of like how they genericize everything. It reduces the cognitive load of making decisions, and presents all of the options in the most uniform way, based on their hard specs, and not marketing BS.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is (was?) an absolutely fabulous answer on quora.com which detailed how this site came to be --- from memory: - initial ecommerce site was a mess (basically a page-by-page recreation of the catalog?) which saw minimal usage - the redesign, which focused on usability --- notably reduced cognitive load --- resulted in an immediate uptick in orders which grew markedly for a long while until it represented the vast…

I wonder how much additional traffic, links, seo benefit and general brand awareness this site has generated simply off doing things to this standard. A fly wheel of benefits.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I've never seen a McMaster link in any search engine. Even if you google a direct McMaster part number, like "91251A449", McMaster will not be among the results. While the url to that product is just https://www.mcmaster.com/91251A449/

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

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I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but these two come to mind: - Mixx: https://mixxx.org/screenshots/ - darktable: https://www.darktable.org/about/screenshots/

shout out to mixxx, a truly excellent piece of free software

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

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Edward Tufte had a good series of books on how to create high density infographics: https://www.edwardtufte.com/books/

However, the books are old and specifically call out the low resolution computer displays at the time. Does anyone have an updated list of references for high density visual information?

Bret Victor's https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ was a good starting point for me.

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

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post #9

I 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…

Great website, the monitor section does not easily cover the use case of macOS users. We want Retina grade displays (5K at 27-inches, 6K at 32-inches). I don't think you even have Apple's monitors?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how much additional traffic, links, seo benefit and general brand awareness this site has generated simply off doing things to this standard. A fly wheel of benefits.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I've never seen a McMaster link in any search engine. Even if you google a direct McMaster part number, like "91251A449", McMaster will not be among the results. While the url to that product is just https://www.mcmaster.com/91251A449/

"Black oxide screw" on the other hand appears.

Those numbers could be anywhere, on completely unrelated things. They are not a good search query.

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