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Their marketing site is amazingly beautiful. Their actual application sites are barely customized bootstrap templates. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Ma
by 013a 6y ago
Their marketing site is amazingly beautiful. Their actual application sites are barely customized bootstrap templates.
And I wouldn't have it any other way. Marketing websites should be flashy to draw people in. But, when the rubber hits the road, I want functionality, power, and performance.
- stronglikedan 6y agoI'll add data-density to the application site wishlist. I wish it were easier to customize Bootstrap in that direction.
- arcturus17 6y agoWhat does data density mean? Having as much data as possible per unit of space?
- stronglikedan 6y agoYes, exactly. E.g., a datagrid showing, say, only a dozen rows in a full screen browser on a 1080p screen, when it can easily show 2-3x that many and still be perfectly readable. For entertainment/marketing/whatever sites, a dozen rows may be fine, but for a business app, it's frustrating. And sure you can just zoom out, but you still have the same data-to-whitespace ratio, just with unreadably small text. It also seems like Bootstrap (at least previous versions) makes it unnecessarily hard to get good data density without heavily customized CSS - something that kind of defeats the purpose of using Bootstrap in a business app.
- arcturus17 6y agoYea, I'm having the same problem with a React-MaterialUI business dashboard that I'm building. Is there a good framework for this?
- madjam002 6y agoI’m using BlueprintJS for a startup I’m working on and it’s great for this reason, components that are purpose built for data density. https://blueprintjs.com/ https://blueprintjs.com/ It is not meant for mobile but can be made to work. If you want a mobile first experience I’d use something else though.
- jksmith 6y agoFunctionality, power, perfomance, no unicorns, no FUD, low bs factor: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ And a fraction of the design costs!
- FpUser 6y agoOMG. You made my day. Beautiful.
- nine_k 6y agoNot mobile-friendly. Otherwise, nicely communicates the idea to be from 1990s.
- niknetniko 6y agoWorks for me, what's not mobile friendly about it?
- Zenbit_UX 6y agoCommunicates intense boomerism. > And a fraction of the design costs! Indeed