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> Being able to quickly scan a large list of emails without scrolling is practical and useful. Conversely, why is scrolling considered evil? We can agree that

> Being able to quickly scan a large list of emails without scrolling is practical and useful. Conversely, why is scrolling considered evil? We can agree that emails are documents. In real life, on your desk, do spread out all your documents so you could see them all at once? Or do you have a stack of them and view them one by one? You can still cross reference by putting documents side by side, just like you can with multiple emails open in separate windows or monitors. Admittedly depending on the amount of emails and the speed at which you work through them you might benefit from seeing many at once, though there's other ways of dealing with that issue. > All whitespace achieves is aesthetics, which are meaningless beyond initial adoption. I don't think whitespace is all about aesthetics. Personally, it makes it easier for me to read and focus on things. It gives individual things more value, rather than them being "just another thing in a gigantic list", easily blending in and showing no significance.

Macha 3y ago
> Conversely, why is scrolling considered evil? We can agree that emails are documents. In real life, on your desk, do spread out all your documents so you could see them all at once? Or do you have a stack of them and view them one by one? You can still cross reference by putting documents side by side, just like you can with multiple emails open in separate windows or monitors. Do you inspect your store's inventory by having one page per SKU or do you get a listing with each SKU summarised into its title? I think the distinction here is really that some people (myself included) deal with so much email, that they need tools to deal with it in bulk, and others in this thread apparently do not. Maybe they're dealing with emails one by one as they come in, maybe they just don't get that much email.
JohnFen 3y ago
> I don't think whitespace is all about aesthetics. Personally, it makes it easier for me to read and focus on things. And for me, having too low of information density makes it harder to use the software. The obvious answer is to allow both sorts of UI aesthetics.

Macha 3y ago

> Conversely, why is scrolling considered evil? We can agree that emails are documents. In real life, on your desk, do spread out all your documents so you could see them all at once? Or do you have a stack of them and view them one by one? You can still cross reference by putting documents side by side, just like you can with multiple emails open in separate windows or monitors. Do you inspect your store's inventory by having one page per SKU or do you get a listing with each SKU summarised into its title? I think the distinction here is really that some people (myself included) deal with so much email, that they need tools to deal with it in bulk, and others in this thread apparently do not. Maybe they're dealing with emails one by one as they come in, maybe they just don't get that much email.

JohnFen 3y ago

> I don't think whitespace is all about aesthetics. Personally, it makes it easier for me to read and focus on things. And for me, having too low of information density makes it harder to use the software. The obvious answer is to allow both sorts of UI aesthetics.