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Pinterest's "famous waterfall layout" makes me want to vomit into my own hat. Am I alone here?
by jack-r-abbit 15y ago
Pinterest's "famous waterfall layout" makes me want to vomit into my own hat. Am I alone here?
- pirateking 15y agoNo, I loathe it as well. I have been a fan of Masonry[1] since it was released, but I do not find the tiling style appropriate for creating the primary browsing interface. A lot of Pinterest users seem to not mind it though. [1] http://vanilla-masonry.desandro.com/ http://vanilla-masonry.desandro.com/
- uptown 15y agoI find it pretty effective for rapid consumption of content for which there's no "lossiness" penalty. I can miss or skip images and there's little or no consequence.
- jack-r-abbit 15y agoMy brain processes things linearly, left to right, top to bottom. If I go left to right on row 1 and then left to right on row 2, I do not expect to find elements of row 1 hanging down into row 2. I don't mind tiles and I don't mind liquid layouts that realign tiles depending on page width. But when nearly every tile has a different height, it really messes with my brain. Even the two column Facebook Timeline makes me angry. Both cause my eyes to scan the page in a way that goes against what I've been doing for 30-some-odd-years now.
- uptown 15y agoI agree with you on Facebook's Timeline. That UI doesn't work for me at all.