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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by dkryptr on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @05:06PM (#40433924)
Even if you have the full menu on your phone, you still have to zoom into the menu to read it and pan the view. I don't see how that's any different from scrolling through a categorized menu in a website on your phone.
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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by jahewson on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @06:36PM (#40434879)
The difference for me is when the menu gets large then it becomes laborious to scroll through a long linear menu vs a rectangular representation of that same data - which allows for much shorter scrolls. Imagine the menu on a restaurant was handed to you on a 4ft long receipt, you’d get pretty fed up of moving it up and down.
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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by bobthepanda on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @05:18PM (#40434084)
zooming and panning is often easier, particularly if a website is hijacking scrolls and slowing them down, doing scroll snapping, etc.
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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by mewpmewp2 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @10:23PM (#40436727)
Zooming allows you to narrow in on the content you desire from a big picture point of view while vertically scrolling you just must hope that you get lucky to find what you are looking for.
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