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To be perfectly honest, I find nothing "excellent" about the right image at the beginning of the article. Clearly there is room for two lines there. The "excel
by unabst 9y ago
To be perfectly honest, I find nothing "excellent" about the right image at the beginning of the article.
Clearly there is room for two lines there. The "excellent" image would be the left image centered properly. It would be legible and without secrecy. If I didn't want to read all of it I wouldn't. But a "..." gives me no choice, nor any further information.
This trend to increase font size was suppose to be for better legibility and simplicity. But instead, we are truncating text where it would naturally fit fine. We are hiding valuable information where conveying information is the only function of that space.
The worst example of this is Google Drive. In grid view, only up to 15 characters of a file name are displayed. That means I cannot prefix anything. "2017-06-10 something" is already "2017-06-10 some..". Photos taken with an Android phone have names too long to fit.
This in a space that could easily fit two lines, that has excessive padding and a tiny icon surrounded by an invisible circle that is then excessively padded on top of that. Why not move that icon to the top left corner of the file preview? And hide it when the file preview is just a huge version of that same icon? The fact that such redundancy is not made an issue already shows a lack of interest in maximizing interface space.
A name is guaranteed to be meaningful, and we use names to help sort and organize our files. Same with titles, and same with captions of things. And the bottom line is, you're not being more concise when you truncate things! There is only one way to do that, and it's by changing our words.