Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by arcturus17 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:19PM
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What does data density mean? Having as much data as possible per unit of space?
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Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by stronglikedan on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:25PM
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Yes, exactly. E.g., a datagrid showing, say, only a dozen rows in a full screen browser on a 1080p screen, when it can easily show 2-3x that many and still be perfectly readable. For entertainment/marketing/whatever sites, a dozen rows may be fine, but for a business app, it's frustrating. And sure you can just zoom out, but you still have the same data-to-whitespace ratio, just with unreadably small text.
It also seems like Bootstrap (at least previous versions) makes it unnecessarily hard to get good data density without heavily customized CSS - something that kind of defeats the purpose of using Bootstrap in a business app.
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by arcturus17 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:18PM
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Yea, I'm having the same problem with a React-MaterialUI business dashboard that I'm building.
Is there a good framework for this?
I’m using BlueprintJS for a startup I’m working on and it’s great for this reason, components that are purpose built for data density.
It is not meant for mobile but can be made to work. If you want a mobile first experience I’d use something else though.