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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)?
#142https://old.reddit.com We used to have an even denser display, but they sadly got rid of it. It was the original reddit mobile interface (served as a webpage, not an app). There is a screenshot on this blog post (by one of the guys who worked on it): https://pdx.su/blog/2023-04-06-rip-reddit-compact/
This. I still use old reddit with RES. It's a bit ugly but perfectly functional. Tried the newer web versions a couple of times over the years and just hate the whole experience. A couple of years ago I considered building a web client for Reddit but then the whole API thing happened. Maybe it's time to build a new Reddit? :)
> Maybe it's time to build a new Reddit?
Alexis and Kevin are already trying to do that with the new Digg. ;)
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#143Aeronautical charts have incredible information density. https://skyvector.com/ for zoomable charts
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#144Programs used by pro creatives. Some people regularly spend 8h/day using a single such product as their primary work tool. E.g. pro desktop versions of photo, print, video, sound, etc editing software usually feature good UX and high information density. One well known example of that is Blender - here is a chapter from their manual about its user interface: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_…
I am still hoping that one day we get an open source image editing application to the level of Photoshop (and for Darktable to become as good as Aperture / Lightroom).
One of the things that Blender did right is adhering to industry standards, especially keybinds. When Blender did their huge UI rework they decided to normalize to the keybinds of its closed-source competitors, along with some of the workflows.
Meanwhile open source image editors go out of their way to have keybinds, workflows and button placement that deviate significantly from Photoshop. Smells strongly of NIH.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#145I'm working on a Hacker News front page with the idea of UI density as a foundational concept.
I haven't did a Show HN yet but I'd love to get some feedback on it first.
It's got a lot of configurable views and can be made extremely dense (dense mode on + columns: auto). The aesthetic itself was made to deviate as little from the HN frontpage as possible.
It's got a lot of filtering knick knacks like being able to view by top comments/points, view hn as a timeline of top stories by comments or stories or view hn by top n over day/week/month/year/custom.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#146If you are looking for a UI framework, checkout IBM Carbon: https://carbondesignsystem.com I used it to build a merge conflict tool: https://codeinput.com and while it required a much deeper understanding than just reading the docs (tons of bugs), it is by far the most comprehensive UI framework out there. Most UIs either lack lots of components or are made by a couple front-end/react/css guys. This inevitably means…
I thought about carbon too, but unfortunately it gives me extreme IBM cloud ptsd. The number of bad associations products building on that design system have to start with is probably not worth the time savings.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#147The desktop version of Charles Schwab's expert trading platform, thinkorswim. Or TWS from Interactive Brokers. Basically these are trading platforms designed for day traders and the highest end of the retail investors market. These necessarily have to good high-information density UIs: imagine trading an option showing all strikes (SPX has hundreds of strikes), both calls and puts, and showing the option Greeks (delta/gamma/vega) and pricing information (bid/ask) for each option. Then you need to give users ability to quickly send trades. You need to support complex strategies: an iron condor has four legs for example. You need to support complex orders like stops and limits and combinations thereof and these need to be built via an UI with THEN/AND/OCO relationships. Some will want a fast-updating candlestick chart; others will want to see the order book; still others will want to plot probabilities or expected prices using Black Scholes model. It's complex.
You should sign up for paper trading and see these UIs feel like.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#148I 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 have written a couple internal parts databases and this was my starting point as far as design/UI/UX.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#149I'm working on a Hacker News front page with the idea of UI density as a foundational concept. https://hcker.news I haven't did a Show HN yet but I'd love to get some feedback on it first. It's got a lot of configurable views and can be made extremely dense (dense mode on + columns: auto). The aesthetic itself was made to deviate as little from the HN frontpage as possible. It's got a lot of filtering knick knacks li…
How do you decide which stories to include in the list for a given day, and how to rank them?
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
This. I still use old reddit with RES. It's a bit ugly but perfectly functional. Tried the newer web versions a couple of times over the years and just hate the whole experience. A couple of years ago I considered building a web client for Reddit but then the whole API thing happened. Maybe it's time to build a new Reddit? :)
> Maybe it's time to build a new Reddit? Alexis and Kevin are already trying to do that with the new Digg. ;)
Oh woah didn't know!