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I go to a bootstrap site and I know what to do. Familiarity is a feature.
I honestly get pretty confused by these websites, usually I have to use ctrl+f to find the content, but often I fail to find what I'm looking for.
HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY SUPERMARKET EVER. Huge automatic glass doors, shopping carts, aisles with stuff on shelves. So fucking creative.
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No, truly utilitarian websites look and function like this: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm The template in the article is exact opposite. It conveys bloat, unoriginality and impedes efficient communication of information.
Here's the thing, that website doesn't actually efficiently communicate as well as you think it does. Information hierarchies have a bunch of channels to get the reader to understand what's important and what's not. Text size, color, motion, placement, rotation, contrast, images, etc. all contribute to drawing the eye to key pieces of information. The link you presented is simple, yes, but the information hierarchy i…
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No, truly utilitarian websites look and function like this: https://smxi.org/docs/inxi.htm The template in the article is exact opposite. It conveys bloat, unoriginality and impedes efficient communication of information.
If you have your business website look like that then you are gonna lose a lot of customers before they even start reading. It looks like it's from the 90s
If you're talking about a business that needs to market to customers through a website; I agree with you.
But I thought OP is talking about efficient communication which I what I responded to. Every comment response is completely misunderstanding where I am coming from.
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Here's the thing, that website doesn't actually efficiently communicate as well as you think it does. Information hierarchies have a bunch of channels to get the reader to understand what's important and what's not. Text size, color, motion, placement, rotation, contrast, images, etc. all contribute to drawing the eye to key pieces of information. The link you presented is simple, yes, but the information hierarchy i…
I am not convinced. It does a far better job of organizing information in my opinion. Clear, concise, zero bullshit.
Here are some resources to educate yourself:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-hierarchy-ux-definit...
https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/process/information-architecture/...
https://uxplanet.org/visual-hierarchy-and-ux-design-a-guide-...
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/visual-...
https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/iaux
It's a field of study that has research to back it up. It's great you find that link legible, but most people would not. Even most developers would find it helpful to tweak whitespace, use headers, and layout the content a little more structured to improve legibility.
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Supermarkets really need to get with the times. I mean, barcodes? Please. It's like they're not even trying.
Seriously . We're soooo over 1-d barcodes. Need to get a QR code on all that stuff. MMmmmmm.... Fiducial markers - that's hot
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A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.
They are literally designed to make you buy products. The milk in the back corner is the most famous example so that you have to pass by as much product as possible to get it and have less chance of not impulse buying. End caps…all the candy right next to the checkout lane, etc.
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A supermarket isn't designed to sell you on a product.
I've been an active reader of HN for 5 years and this has to by far be the most wrong comment I have ever seen. Absolutely bone-headed.