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I agree with you. I'd love to see good examples of that, because I struggle to create that sort of websites. For example, how would you redesign the Python doc

• TuringTest 4y ago
  Information can be beautiful on its own, if you follow some common patterns about contrast, clustering and hierarchy. These are based on the principles of Gestalt [1] which engineers can learn without having artsy skills by watching books and courses specific for us, e.g. [2]. Do you know about Edward Tufte? His work doesn't revolves specifically about software, but his principles show how to present technical information in the clearest way, and his books [3] are beautiful examples on how to put a technical topic in book form with clean and beautiful layouts. [1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt-principles https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt... [2] https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog/design-for-developers-the-principles-of-visual-design-672f1fc1fc64 https://medium.com/bigcommerce-developer-blog/design-for-dev... [3] https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
• kccqzy 4y ago
  A lot of Python docs are in fact pretty well designed to resemble a book without completely breaking the fluidity of the web page. They use serif fonts, apply font weights and colors subtly. In fact I think they strike the right balance between just being a regular webpage and completely succumbing to the constraints of the book as media. https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x/ https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x/