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Fullscreen on my 16x9 display wastes the clear majority of screen space. Is having a single, centered column considered superior to alternatives?
by dleslie 10y ago
Fullscreen on my 16x9 display wastes the clear majority of screen space. Is having a single, centered column considered superior to alternatives?
- TillE 10y agoTwitter has the same sort of design, but I think Google+ really draws attention to the vast ocean of whitespace by leaving a column all the way on the left. Twitter has three columns when you load the page, but then just one as you scroll down. It doesn't look as strange.
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- awesomerobot 10y agoBanner blindness has ruined a lot of potential multi-column experiences from some basic eye tracking studies that I've done on multi-column layouts in the past. Also... you can make the same comment about hacker news, yet here we are.
- strictnein 10y agoHN is one column, but it's 85% of the page. G+ content is a fixed 530px.
- klodolph 10y agoHN only works because the text here is short. Try reading longer posts in a maximized window. Readability studies consistently tell us that optimum column width, for readibility, is something like 50-75 characters wide (including spaces). You can get by with more width for short text like HN comments.
- patmcguire 10y agoPinterest is the only site I've seen that will fill whatever screen size you throw at it, like God intended.
- kasbah 10y agoWhat do you think of my design? https://kitnic.it/ https://kitnic.it/
- et-al 10y agoThis is essentially a mobile-first site. Chalk it up to lazy programmers or UX folks who didn't code/design a responsive site properly.
- keithnz 10y agoare you sure you are looking at the right version? mine uses most of the space. There's a setting :- Stream Restrict stream to single-column layout on all screen sizes do you have this on?