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I was with you until you dissed Pinterest. Pinterest is very information dense. It utilizes every inch of screen space, and it does so without looking cramped

I was with you until you dissed Pinterest. Pinterest is very information dense. It utilizes every inch of screen space, and it does so without looking cramped at all. It's a huge design success.

sp332 11y ago
It seems very image-oriented though. I wouldn't try to read news on it.
- FoeNyx 11y ago
  "A picture is worth a thousand words"
  - 6d0debc071 11y ago
    Depends on the words, the picture and the audience. I wouldn't attempt to understand your API's system contract via a picture of the computer. One of the concerns I have is that we may end up moving to a very image-oriented media that finds it difficult to meaningfully communicate certain thoughts - and perhaps encourages an audience largely unable and/or unwilling to meaningfully attempt to understand them.
    - Animats 11y ago
      That's television. The web is a step up from TV in that regard.
      - TeMPOraL 11y ago
        And they said the same thing about TV just a decade ago. I'm pretty sure it's still bullshit, just like it was wrt. TV.
- adimitrov 11y ago
  Well, but it's not for news — it's not supposed to be, and that's OK. I don't use pinterest much, except for creative pursuits. For example, browsing for inspiration for calligraphic scripts is a lot of fun on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=textura+quadrata https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=textura+quadrata https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cadel+flourish https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cadel+flourish https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=caligrafitti https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=caligrafitti I treat it as a source of inspiration, not information.
- hussong 11y ago
  I think the problem is that people see the beauty of the pinterest layout (which works well for pinning images) and then adapt it to show textual content (which works much worse than a plain list of headlines for scanning news).
- mehwoot 11y ago
  Right, but that just means they have made a design that suits what is being displayed on their website.

I was with you until you dissed Pinterest. Pinterest is very information dense. It utilizes every inch of screen space, and it does so without looking cramped at all. It's a huge design success.

sp332 11y ago

It seems very image-oriented though. I wouldn't try to read news on it.

FoeNyx 11y ago
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
- 6d0debc071 11y ago
  Depends on the words, the picture and the audience. I wouldn't attempt to understand your API's system contract via a picture of the computer. One of the concerns I have is that we may end up moving to a very image-oriented media that finds it difficult to meaningfully communicate certain thoughts - and perhaps encourages an audience largely unable and/or unwilling to meaningfully attempt to understand them.
  - Animats 11y ago
    That's television. The web is a step up from TV in that regard.
    - TeMPOraL 11y ago
      And they said the same thing about TV just a decade ago. I'm pretty sure it's still bullshit, just like it was wrt. TV.
adimitrov 11y ago
Well, but it's not for news — it's not supposed to be, and that's OK. I don't use pinterest much, except for creative pursuits. For example, browsing for inspiration for calligraphic scripts is a lot of fun on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=textura+quadrata https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=textura+quadrata https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cadel+flourish https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cadel+flourish https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=caligrafitti https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=caligrafitti I treat it as a source of inspiration, not information.
hussong 11y ago
I think the problem is that people see the beauty of the pinterest layout (which works well for pinning images) and then adapt it to show textual content (which works much worse than a plain list of headlines for scanning news).
mehwoot 11y ago
Right, but that just means they have made a design that suits what is being displayed on their website.