I initially built https://plaintextsports.com because I was annoyed with how slowly other sports websites loaded, but since then I have come to appreciate it more for the density of the information, and how few clicks it takes to get to the info you care about (usually at most two or three).
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)?
#282Earlier 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…
What you're looking for is rockauto.com but for your industry.
In my opinion it is superior to McMaster
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#283Anthony is building MarketMonkey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYLx1RtvAU
Autodesk Flame is a great example of fixed-layout high-density UI - (look for tutorial videos and screenshots). Maya, Houdini - most apps from the high-end VFX space.
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#284Programs 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_…
"8h" is "a decent 9-to-5 workday". Then you sometimes have overtime...
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#285Any EMR (electronic medical record) would probably fit this description. For example Epic, the leading one in the US: https://www.emrsystems.net/epic-ehr-software/ Or Orbis, the leading one in Europe: (there's not many good screenshots of it online but this PDF has a few) https://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Kundeninfos/DE/09/2023/32261... There's a myriad of other ones as well, they all have similar UIs, with the primary…
My mom builds EMR workflows for a major hospital and my father and sister are doctors (both very tech savvy--my sister has a computational bio background for her Bachelor's prior to her MD). None of them have anything good to say about Epic.
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Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
What you're looking for is rockauto.com but for your industry. In my opinion it is superior to McMaster
Well, on McMaster you don’t really need to know the brand because they only have good stuff that meets spec.
On RockAuto, watch out, because they stock some hot garbage.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#287Rate Your Music has a famously divisive UI which would send the userbase into open revolt if ever changed. Primary examples:
An artist page: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stereolab
An album page: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stereolab/dots-and-l...
I personally adore it - RYM is permanently open on my 3rd monitor throughout the work day as I churn through new music.
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#288Bloomberg
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think everything McMaster dates to it being a physical book first. They still operate on that same business model, but we have the internet now. The supplied product might change, but it still meets whatever specification is in the catalog that is released yearly. If they could guarantee a TI-83 Plus was what you were going to get they would have put it in the catalog, but they couldn't so they don't. And they STIL…
Oh yeah, the books are impressive in their own right. However many items you think they sell looking at the website, the book reveals you were a couple orders of magnitudes off. 1000+ bible-thin pages of well laid out tables and product photos. It's pretty much what the website would look without any filtering of the items. The books are fun to leaf through on occasion, or if you need to take up an extra 3 inches on…
The old grainger catalogs were like that. Uline is similar but not even 1/4 the number of products.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#290I'm a rover driver / arm operator for Curiosity and we have several excellent tools that fit your description here at JPL. Chief among them, in my opinion, is RSVP Hyperdrive. See the 5th screenshot on https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/applications/us... . I'm also a developer on RSVP and have contributed bug fixes and features to Hyperdrive. I'm hopeful we can open-source it someday. (This is my opinion, not JPL or Caltech or NASA's opinion)