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Why do all these dashboard app waste so much space? There's not a lot of info on that screen, and yet it doesn't fit in my laptop... I could fit 3 times as muc

by d--b 8y ago

Why do all these dashboard app waste so much space? There's not a lot of info on that screen, and yet it doesn't fit in my laptop... I could fit 3 times as much in an Excel spreadsheet...

retSava 8y ago
My pet peeve is low contrast, makes it really hard to quickly distinguish between parts of the page. Simply by changing the light grey background for something much darker makes the individual charts and boxes pop out, making it so much easier to compartmentalize the information. edit: https://imgur.com/a/2cUQAXr https://imgur.com/a/2cUQAXr
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
  The reason why designers don't do that is rooted in the modern guidelines advising against higher contrast as "bad style". That's why on many websites we need to read dark-grey text on light-grey background. Black and white are frowned upon in the UI design community.
  - jdietrich 8y ago
    Which guidelines? W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines specifically recommend a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1. Most web style guidelines that I'm familiar with inherit this recommendation, including Material. https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont... https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#color-contrast https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#colo...
jdietrich 8y ago
Whitespace improves legibility. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/
thirdsun 8y ago
> I could fit 3 times as much in an Excel spreadsheet... Which doesn't necessarily mean that it actually helps you to find the information or data you seek faster. Proper spacing is needed to separate groups of objects. However I agree that this dashboard template is simply not good, though spacing is one of the lesser concerns here.

by d--b 8y ago

Why do all these dashboard app waste so much space? There's not a lot of info on that screen, and yet it doesn't fit in my laptop... I could fit 3 times as much in an Excel spreadsheet...

retSava 8y ago

My pet peeve is low contrast, makes it really hard to quickly distinguish between parts of the page. Simply by changing the light grey background for something much darker makes the individual charts and boxes pop out, making it so much easier to compartmentalize the information. edit: https://imgur.com/a/2cUQAXr https://imgur.com/a/2cUQAXr

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
The reason why designers don't do that is rooted in the modern guidelines advising against higher contrast as "bad style". That's why on many websites we need to read dark-grey text on light-grey background. Black and white are frowned upon in the UI design community.
- jdietrich 8y ago
  Which guidelines? W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines specifically recommend a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1. Most web style guidelines that I'm familiar with inherit this recommendation, including Material. https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont... https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#color-contrast https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#colo...

jdietrich 8y ago

Whitespace improves legibility. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/

thirdsun 8y ago

> I could fit 3 times as much in an Excel spreadsheet... Which doesn't necessarily mean that it actually helps you to find the information or data you seek faster. Proper spacing is needed to separate groups of objects. However I agree that this dashboard template is simply not good, though spacing is one of the lesser concerns here.