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Re:HN was down by Lammy on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:43PM (#26469548)
I’ve come to enjoy using a high DPI monitor without display scaling as a way to counteract the huge amount of whitespace in modern UIs, coupled with content zooming so words are still actually readable :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-page-we/
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Re:HN was down by pabloarteel on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:46PM (#26470911)
As a designer, I've been thinking a lot about this "huge amount of whitespace in modern UIs" thing. I personally hate it, I want most things to be always in reach.

Two of my hypotheses are:

(1) some designers are working on huge screens themselves, and don't test enough in usual resolutions

(2) it's easier to achieve good visual composition by doing a lot of whitespace (to the expense of hiding things below fold or in triggerable containers)

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