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(If you want information-dense designs, find someone who benefits from them, and ask them.)
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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. Meanwhi…
There are already two top quality offers available in Affinity and Pixelmator, both for extremely cheap prices. No need for any open source project.
Any 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…
They are infamous for being trash and difficult to use though. There's an entire field of "EMR consultants". It's also why there's a EMR startup on hacker news every other week.
The new EMR software was highly configurable, so lots of this happened. Staff teams signed off on it, and had training from the implementation team.
Fewer screens? Check! …Wellll, sorta: some very long scrolling views…which didn't play nice with mousewheels. It would seem like the page randomly and mysteriously stoppe scrolling, then suddenly scroll normally. There were lots of weird data entry errors, from all staff, regardless of prior reputation for accuracy. They were just getting used to new software, right? Nope. I tracked this down to the dropdown lists scattered on the long scrolling pages. As a page scrolled, random lists ate scroll events, changed the list item to either the first or last item, then permitted scrolling to continue.
Fonts worked mostly great…except some of the typefaces follow the should-be-criminal design of allowing various characters to to look identical. Font sizing worked as expected. I think Pre-cert desk liked Candara, for the way numbers stood out.
Notes fields…these were our downfall, sometimes multiple times per day. Anything put into them was inserted as raw text into SQL:
Patient said xxxxxxx -- ESR
…or…
something-something 'quoted thing'
…would mean the database locked up, no exams savable or queryable, no patient intake, no checkout until I.T. admin could fix it. The implementation team was gone, and non-responsive, so sticky notes with a list of forbidden characters seemed to be everywhere.
I believe some contracts for referrals were lost, due to delays and errors. Some staff quit, after months of no fixes. But I later heard from one of the most affected staffers that the same EMR software was installed at our biggest competitor, and no issues at all.
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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…
The calculator is an extreme example, but I've wondered in the past if the reason they scrub everything is so you can't take the manufacturer part number to buy elsewhere. McMaster is undoubtedly more expensive in many cases, but the service they offer is consolidating a million parts into one catalog with CAD drawings, specs, etc. Hiding branding prevents you from taking advantage of that without making a purchase.
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 don't know if any of these are good, but there are 100s (1000s?) of examples of high density UIs here https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues?q=label%3Agallery So you don't have to dig, 3 examples https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6f62b5ca8579543a1f59eceed... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/4... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/4...
Links 3rd and 4th don't work. Also, the second one, holy shit it has to be the densest imgui UI I've seen.
URL 3: https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/4...
shortened: https://www.naturl.link/mDBwyX
URL 4: https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/4...
shortened: https://www.naturl.link/sOVcsG
Or maybe it's better to link to the post in the issue
#3 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8333#issuecomment-26...
#4 https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8333#issuecomment-28...
In any case, you can follow the first link and browse the galleries.
I worked on software for doctors to use at clinics for a while and hands down those programs have some of the most information dense UIs I have ever seen. Doctors want everything possible on a single screen, it's wild Unfortunately I don't really know how to get screenshots or examples for you, given the nature of healthcare data privacy and such But I would suggest searching around and seeing what you can find for c…
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This makes sense. One suggestion would be to add a "Click to hold" button, which will push the dialog pop-up into a corner, maybe in a condensed view, and allow you to select more items. Then you can do a selective comparison of multiple items at once. "Click to hold" isn't a good name for the feature, but hopefully the idea makes sense.
Have you seen the "compare" button in the popup when you hover an item? It lets you highlight multiple items and compare them later.
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/
