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I usually visit http://hckrnews.com , I like the clean design there... But yours is a nice effort
One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
I really like the way it fits in my narrow browser window! Many redesigns don't.
And I like the bigger upvote button.
One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
Really? On my computer it's the exact opposite. The HN design looks like the font is around 8pt; the redesign looks like it's around 11pt.
I designed this last, late California night. So the design isn't finished; this is a first draft.
Obviously the posts themselves are an issue. I didn't put much attention to the posts. I'll do that. Some of the feedback I got on it were: 1. Larger vote buttons. 2. Less contrast (too hard on the eyes). 3. Too much white space, a little too small of text. 4. Focus on title, not author.
Some other feedback I got was on the orange color. I pulled this straight from HN's header bar. I guess because the bar is taller that the color is brighter. I need to think about if it's the color or the surrounding elements that make it feel this way.
Keep up the commenting and feedback. I'm not finished here yet. I really liked the HackerWeb design, but it's too narrow; it feels like a mobile app. I'll pull some inspiration from there, but I really want to bring the design back to a "hacker" feel. So stay tooned!
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Support this statement! Design that sacrifices content for sake of nice looking white-spaces can be used only on personal pages that nobody reads.
Whitespace doesn't exist just for the sake of being pretty. At least to me I find this mockup much more readable than the current design, as the space between links clearly separates them. This makes it much easier to read their titles.
One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
Support this statement! Design that sacrifices content for sake of nice looking white-spaces can be used only on personal pages that nobody reads.
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Really? On my computer it's the exact opposite. The HN design looks like the font is around 8pt; the redesign looks like it's around 11pt.
The real HN has 10pt titles and 7pt metadata, at least on my PC. The redesign makes titles smaller and metadata larger, in effect making them the same size. I think this is a bad change, because now there's little distinction between title and metadata.
For those on a wide-screen monitor, it would be nice if you used all of the empty real estate on the right. Move everything up to a single line and take what is currently your second-line content (comments, vote count, etc) and push it all the way to the right. It'll make it a lot easier to scan the headlines. For mobile devices you could always revert back to the stacked approach. http://i.imgur.com/in4x0Im.png
The problem when it comes to listings is that information needs to be easily scannable. The information to be scanned usually has a certain hierarchy, so there has to be a separation that reflects this hierarchy. If you use your solution, you favour optimal separation while sacrificing scanability.
This is not exactly a straight-forward problem to solve because the hierarchy is different for everyone. But one thing we can all agree on is that the title is at the very top of it. So, having the title in a bigger font-size, maybe bold, but definitely more contrasted as the stuff around it goes without saying. So the current HN style is not that far off the mark, though I think it could do with less data and/or more whitespace, to counter the "gray haze syndrome".
A straightforward fix for this meta-data clutter would be to make it collapsable, you could then show it in a tooltip on hover for example. Or make it collapsable on a per story basis to cater for tablet/phone users.