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> Information density has decreased even as screens have gotten bigger and LCDs have higher and higher resolutions. Right, and here's an especially egregious e

> Information density has decreased even as screens have gotten bigger and LCDs have higher and higher resolutions. Right, and here's an especially egregious example: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-funds/profile/vicsx https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun... When viewed on a laptop, there is so little information visible (without scrolling) that you might as well be viewing the page on a phone.

StableAlkyne 3y ago
Biggest example of this is to go to any news site or blog, and scroll through in a browser (without adblock if you're feeling frisky). How long did you have to scroll, and how dense was the text? Then open a TUI browser like Lynx and go to the same page. Now look at how much text there really was. Usually it will be about a page or so without the need to scroll at all. Doing this opened my eyes to just how monumentally bad modern web design has gotten at conveying information.
Qwertious 3y ago
That site is like setting browser zoom level to 500%, but without nice large text sizes. Ugh.