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This design reminds me an example from Jef Raskin’s book about user interfaces. Instead of choosing a mode (C->F, F->C) it just shows both results, so a user ca

• TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Thanks for reminding me I need to finally Read Raskin. I occasionally hear the name in context of UI and approachable computing, but I somehow imagine he'd go in opposite direction to increasing information density. This approach reminds me of the works of a different person - Edward Tufte. He writes about visualizing information, but that by itself is a user interface (even if we didn't call it this until recently). He gives plenty of praise to designs like this - which show you everything at once, and play into strengths of your visual system, which is very good at focusing, zooming out, filtering out things you're not interested in, and switching focus rapidly.
• arp242 3y ago
  The downside of this is that there are two numbers to read, which does increase the cognitive overload a little bit (and also requires more UI space, in some cases). But absent any context or input, this is also what I do, including for other things like dates: "4th of March", "Mar 4th", "Mar 4", or some variation thereof, rather than "3/4", "4-3", "2023-03-04", or whatever. This is the only way to make things instantly clear to everyone, no matter where they're from or their background.