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If your list has more than a dozen items or so, then you need a better way to represent your data (EDIT: just to be clear, not in a data structure way— rather i
by GuiA 15y ago
If your list has more than a dozen items or so, then you need a better way to represent your data (EDIT: just to be clear, not in a data structure way— rather in a graphical representation way. See Tufte's "Envisioning Information" (and Tufte's work in general)).
That being said, the effects are really sweet. Zipper and Fan are my favorites.
- _delirium 15y agoBig lists can be useful as reference tables, though in that case I'm not sure I would bother with fancy scrolling. For example, while you can make better visualizations of per-country GDP for various purposes, just the plain sortable table imo is the most useful basic reference format.
- hej 15y agoIt seems to work pretty well for my music library (where I have lists with artists and albums). That said, I appreciate being able to instantly go to all artists or albums that start with a certain letter, either by pressing a key on the keyboard or by taping on the index on iOS devices. I’m not sure how things like that can be improved to not make them a list. Search is always a possible alternative, but to me search is a fundamentally different way of looking at my music. If I search I already know what I want, if I scroll through the list I don’t and I’m looking for something.