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This. Unfortunately today, the desktop is an afterthought and everything is designed for “mobile first”. I even see this in SaaS apps that should actually neve

by tacker2000 3y ago

This. Unfortunately today, the desktop is an afterthought and everything is designed for “mobile first”. I even see this in SaaS apps that should actually never be used on a phone. Or desktop OSes like windows and mac are increasingly using mobile paradigms on the desktop. There is so much whitespace, huge fonts, huge buttons, hamburger popup menu everywhere (aaaargh!!) Basically it boils down to the “information density” which is dumbed down to the lowest possible denominator. There should be a measure for this and websites/apps should be rates based on that.

mmis1000 3y ago
It sounds like you are talking about gmail web at md2 era. The giant sidebar item that can only literally show 6 item on a 1080 screen. The giant mail row that display only 10 or maybe 15 mail on whole screen. And new mail button on right bottom that requires you move your mouse across the whole screen to write a new mail. It really makes me wonder 'wtf? Who designed that, did he actually try to use it by himself?'. At least it seems they steps back a bit now. Also they moved the new mail button back to top left.