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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by Reason077 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:14PM (#40436303)
Scrolling itself isn't tedious compared to panning and zooming a PDF. The information density is what's important. If you have to do a bunch of scrolling to see just a few items then, yes, they failed.
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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by EnigmaFlare on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @12:04AM (#40437210)
It depends what the PDF is. Reading a PDF book is tedious because you're endlessly panning back and forth at every line. But you don't read a restaurant menu from start to finish like that so it makes sense to have a less linear way of navigating than scrolling.
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Re:What UI density means and how to design for it by nofunsir on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:19PM (#40436328)
> Scrolling itself isn't tedious compared to panning and zooming a PDF.

I simply disagree, and think the EXACT opposite.

Panning and Zooming a two-dimensional, immutable file itself isn't tedious compared to scrolling.

(You're straw-manning PDFs, though it could be any 2D image or mutable document file)

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