Late to the party, but no mention of Winamp? My all time favorite UI, masterwork in maximizing utility for it's size
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)?
#252I'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…
On first look this looks slightly more usable that hckrnews.com, which I'm currently using(mostly).
It would be perfect(for me) if it had some more (light)themes, with yellow-brownish background, like 'manila paper', or something like that.
Will continue trying it out.
Anyways, thumbs up so far...
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's ok most of the time, but it's not like they sell McMaster branded stuff in McMaster packaging. They are a supplier, and might want to obfuscate to keep you from buying direct from the actual manufacturers. On the other hand, on my desk right now is a bag of springs, the info printed on it says it was made by WB Jones, part number 4011. We ordered it from McMaster. Why not? They stock the item and ship super quic…
Buying from McMaster is like ordering mil spec part numbers. You don't really care who makes it or what vendor-specific p/n they give it, you just want the part built to spec for the cheapest price and soonest delivery date.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#254Simply look into your past...
I have adhd searched for an image I have save of Classic Windows XP theme with cmd windows and old Firefox with old unknown web ui. Peak. But cant find it.
*Edit - I found it
This is the peak UI - LOOK. Just everything. Windows XP? with classic theme and some multi workspace swicther in the corner. Small icons, no combine taskbar. SSH/console. Classic Firefox. Unknown encoder web UI "BEAST". DENSE.
https://i.imgur.com/Sdy3Z5o.jpeg
This is also a collection
Adding Wireshark
https://i.imgur.com/VLSspTw.png
Adding Qbittorrent
https://preview.redd.it/0yukk4ligh5a1.jpg?width=1907&format=...
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#255I 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…
Nice idea. I worked for a while on a "computer blue book", e.g. to answer the question how much a laptop of given specs should cost.
For something like laptops, I recommend providing the option to look at a CPU benchmark score. A list a CPU models isn't super helpful, and even then a "intel i5" can mean something very different depending on the generation.
To me there seems to be a vast overemphasis on screen specs (7 spec lines)
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#256I call it Trader UI vs VC UI. Traders want as much info jammed onto the screen as possible. VC backed companies use bootstrap, and want rounded corners on a pricing page with little actual information. I have been working on Buckaroo, a table UI for dataframes that runs in jupyter notebooks. It's much more TraderUI, with sparkline size histograms, and decent baked in formatting for numeric columns. https://github.com…
When it comes to something you're buying, if it's a novel thing, the vendor wants to "chat" because there is no real market price so they are going to try to rob you. But if it's a commodity, the vendor wants to waste as little of your time as possible because they could otherwise lose the sale to any of the dozen other vendors selling the same thing for the same price.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#257dmbalmanac.com
very old and not optimized for modern screens, but the density always was impressive to me
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#259Game tools, and in-game dev menus tend to be high-information density too.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#260Look 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…
https://ui.perfetto.dev/ is also good in this line.
heh, I worked on that one so I didn't feel like I should put it. I'm happy you thought of it though.