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Adding a full 20px of vertical padding to each item in a list sure looks pretty, but it's cut the number of items visible on the page by ~50%. For a tool design
by garethsprice 15y ago
Adding a full 20px of vertical padding to each item in a list sure looks pretty, but it's cut the number of items visible on the page by ~50%. For a tool designed for skimming large amounts of information it seems to cut efficiency rather than improve it.
Can any UI people provide a good reason for this change? (More white space = faster skimming/more comprehension?)
- lukesandberg 15y agoYou assume that skimming is a primary use case. That is not how i use google reader (if there is a feed that i consistently do not want to read i unsubscribe). Maybe they were optimizing for my use case, where you read everything (or close to it).
- rfvtgb 15y agoFor example, I have Hacker News in my rss feeds. I certainly never read everything or even close to that. As a fellow HN user, surely you are not interested in every article here?
- mikeklaas 15y agoWhy are you using an RSS reader (even worse, one that tracks unread counts), then?
- rfvtgb 15y agoBecause it is a very good aggregation of almost everything on the internet I care about. I can have feeds for tumblr accounts, youtube accounts, twitter accounts and whole subreddits and without actually having an account in any one of them or actually having to go to them everyday. This ties in with my complaint with Reader removing social features. I don't want to go to G+ everyday to see my friends' shares when previously I could stay in the only ``social'' network I care about.
- jinushaun 15y agoBecause nearly every site has an RSS/Atom feed and therefore, I can visit dozens of sites at once without ever leaving Google Reader. Not just blog posts and news sites, but anything with an RSS/Atom feed like Facebook status updates, tweets, etc. It's efficient web surfing.