It's also interesting to see that they've done the exact opposite of what the devs from Sunless Skies did from the article. The Sunless Skies devs thought that

It's also interesting to see that they've done the exact opposite of what the devs from Sunless Skies did from the article. The Sunless Skies devs thought that in their previous design the reading panel was too much on the right side and was discomforting to the players and moved to the center). Instead Disco Elysium moved all text to the right and made the whole presentation like a Twitter feed on the side.