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Re:The Decline of Usability: Revisited by breadwinner on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:07PM (#38284208)
> Information density has decreased even as screens have gotten bigger and LCDs have higher and higher resolutions.

Right, and here's an especially egregious example: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...

When viewed on a laptop, there is so little information visible (without scrolling) that you might as well be viewing the page on a phone.

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Re:The Decline of Usability: Revisited by StableAlkyne on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:23PM (#38284325)
Biggest example of this is to go to any news site or blog, and scroll through in a browser (without adblock if you're feeling frisky). How long did you have to scroll, and how dense was the text?

Then open a TUI browser like Lynx and go to the same page. Now look at how much text there really was. Usually it will be about a page or so without the need to scroll at all.

Doing this opened my eyes to just how monumentally bad modern web design has gotten at conveying information.

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Re:The Decline of Usability: Revisited by Qwertious on Thursday November 16, 2023 @01:54AM (#38286469)
That site is like setting browser zoom level to 500%, but without nice large text sizes. Ugh.
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