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I did some searching and I'm not sure the answer you remember exists. All I can find after a bunch of keyword + date-restricted searches in Google, Quora, & HN is Ibrahim Bashir ( https://www.quora.com/Who-designed-UI-UX-and-developed-the-w... ) who worked there 2003-2005 ( https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-work-for-McMaster-Carr... ) and who writes: > McMaster-Carr has a Systems department which handles internal…
This suggests having your front-end and design staff take Tufte's trainings would not be a bad investment.
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)?
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
This suggests having your front-end and design staff take Tufte's trainings would not be a bad investment.
Absolutely agree --- they are _amazing_ sessions, and if you can't make it, the books are highly recommended: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/10775.Edward_R_Tufte
Still seems worth it, just wondering
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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.
They will only put a brand on a product (example: 3M DP420) when it truly comes from a single source and has special meaning/implications.
That said, I order tens of thousands of dollars of McMaster Carr items each year. They almost always come in packages from the OEM with OEM part numbers. So if I want more bolts like that, I just look at the box they were delivered in. The info is just not on the web interface.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#334I'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…
Please add an option to kill the gutter space. You want density and get rid of a substantial part of the viewing space with empty space on the sides.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#335I'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...
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#336For weather data, I'm partial to Wunderground's 10-Day forecast[0] view. In one component you can see temp highs/lows, precipitation, cloud cover, humidity, wind speed, etc. by the hour, for the next week. Full disclosure: I worked on this as a junior engineer, the lead engineer was fantastic. The code hasn't changed in 10+ years. [0] https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco/37...
Yours has a much smoother aesthetic, though I could go for either
[1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.2705&lon=-7...
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely agree --- they are _amazing_ sessions, and if you can't make it, the books are highly recommended: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/10775.Edward_R_Tufte
Are the classes still offered? I was looking to take it a few years ago, but couldn't figure out how to sign up. It seems like only video lectures are available now. Still seems worth it, just wondering
Now that I think on it, I haven't seen an ad for them since before the pandemic, so I guess not (in person).
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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 did, it just seems to highlight the items in the view? I was hoping to see all of the dialog boxes at once, somewhere. I'm using a laptop FYI so have plenty of screen real estate for that
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#339If you put a form in front of someone with fields like name and address when they are requesting a quote you don't go put "personal info" at the top... in a red font?? If it is important you use a larger font, red is for drama. We have bullshit draining the attention.
The same goes for "Address correction", the user is not to stupid to see the form is returned to them.
It gets worse from there....
"We could not find the address you entered"
If it was an IRL person to person interaction this is all you would say. No screaming or drama required.
Some elaboration would be nice. If you do that properly there is no need to vaguely talk about the address in general.
"Entered street name was not found"
Imagine that, ask yourself, would it be useful to also say you couldn't find the address?
But we have stuff between those two things to further confuse the user. I don't know the situation but if they may continue despite not finding the address you should probably just accept the address.
It gets even worse from here... We've told them we cant find the street name but the house number is also incorrect??? wha how?
I haven't the slightest what "Directional incorrect" means, maybe and/or works differently in the US.
We don't know what St means in a street name?
If one may make changes or continue with the address provided. How will the user know his changes are correct? If they want to continue as~is they cant be presented with "Address correction" again. You would need two submit buttons.
And finally, the truly most terrible part is that the "errors(?)" are not described above or below the form field they apply to.
We get this wall of complicated text where a few lines should have been enough.
As this is page 1 out of 8 the odds people will run away from the computer screaming are greatly improved.
Re: Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
#340https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16808/why-was-c...
imho the UI is the monitor, mouse and keyboard with the later two being the most important.
Also of interest here is the amount of conditioning the user enjoyed/suffered. If they cant get their things done elsewhere they will have to learn how to use the proverbial Blender. If the interface gradually got more complicated the long term user wont even notice how crowded it got.