15 ms·

Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

• ferguess_k 2y ago
  Try telecom custom service software. Very dense.
• MrCoffee7 2y ago
  News aggregators: https://sciurls.com https://sciurls.com https://techurls.com https://techurls.com https://mathurls.com https://mathurls.com https://devurls.com https://devurls.com https://skimfeed.com https://skimfeed.com https://hackurls.com https://hackurls.com
• nottorp 2y ago
  > Search engines are full to the brim with vague articles repeating each other's talking points You just described the modern search experience on any topic. As much as I hate it, i'd suggest asking a few "AI"s and trying Kagi.
• coffeeindex 2y ago
  I recall seeing some discussion about the UI density Japanese websites (specifically Japanese news sites). For example: https://www.asahi.com/ https://www.asahi.com/ Now that I think about it, news sites in general have fairly high density UIs, not that I consider them to be shining examples of great UIs. https://www.yahoo.com https://www.yahoo.com https://www.bloomberg.com/ https://www.bloomberg.com/
  • mrweasel 2y ago
    Regarding Bloomberg, the Bloomberg Terminal is also a good example of a really information dense interface. There is a few videos on YouTube where Bloomberg shows examples of how to use their terminals.
    • MattSayar 2y ago
      Like this one [0]. I don't understand most of it but I can appreciate how few clicks it takes to get the info you want [0] https://youtu.be/h0hYYIGryJ4?si=LkBtTVWyomvyEjlM&t=69 https://youtu.be/h0hYYIGryJ4?si=LkBtTVWyomvyEjlM&t=69
      • mrweasel 2y ago
        Yes, exactly. It probably makes more sense if you understand the terms used in the financial industry. Overall I'm just fascinated by the whole system, everything from the design language, the UI, the infrastructure and the keyboard.
  • qntmfred 2y ago
    re: Japanese web design https://youtu.be/vi8pyS076a8 https://youtu.be/vi8pyS076a8
  • softgrow 2y ago
    https://kakaku.com https://kakaku.com (A shopping comparison and review site) has menus not as long as McMaster-Car (down the left side), then more menus in the body and tabs thrown in to boot when you reach a product. Each product page is jam packed with more information. A lot of information yes, good design, not so sure.
• MrCoffee7 2y ago
  sites that allow you to build your own list of weblinks such as https://start.me https://start.me , eg. here is a specific example https://start.me/p/GEQXv7/osint-us https://start.me/p/GEQXv7/osint-us
• seanhunter 2y ago
  Bloomberg is the obvious example. It is an extremely well-designed and effective high-information density UI designed to be very efficient to use but requiring some skills to get the most out of it.
  • chrisweekly 2y ago
    Yeah, in general financial software designed for expert users (hedge fund managers / traders) is extremely info-dense. I'm also reminded of World of Warcraft; in my role as a "healer", keeping track of changes to the health levels of maybe 20 other players in a raid (in addition to all the health / spells / weapons / maps / etc for my own avatar's immediate needs) required an impressively info-dense UI.
  • divbzero 2y ago
    Bloomberg Terminal was the first example that came to mind for me too: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomberg_Terminal_Museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bloomberg_Terminal_M...
• fauria 2y ago
  Command line system monitoring tools like htop, atop, btop, etc: https://static.linuxblog.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/btop.png https://static.linuxblog.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/btop....
  • whalesalad 2y ago
    glances is my favorite as far a density goes
  • toomuchtodo 2y ago
    btop is so good for rapid, dense information communication
  • mtve 2y ago
    Cisco IOS, highest density information per screen of old days CLI, like "sh int" (show interface) to get almost all required information at one glance.
  • ashwinsundar 2y ago
    Wow btop looks fantastic out-of-the-box. I spent a long time configuring htop and still don't really like how it displays info (although it is an improvement over plain-old top)
    • petepete 2y ago
      Bottom is also great. I switched from btop because I preferred the config format. https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
• dejobaan 2y ago
  I always thought video games were a good thing to look at here. They're NOT always an appropriate reference (being an entertainment medium), but you often have to get a pile of info up on the screen, legible, quickly. The Game UI Database is pretty cool, with 1300-ish games: https://www.gameuidatabase.com https://www.gameuidatabase.com
• mg 2y ago
  I am developing this project, which replaces product lists with what I call "product charts": https://www.productchart.com https://www.productchart.com The idea is to sort products not by one parameter (like price or release date) but by two - which creates an x/y chart. The product info is displayed dynamically - by default only the image is show. On hover, more info is displayed in a tooltip. And when you click "details", all data is shown. This way, 300 products easily fit on the screen. You need to watch it on a monitor to see the chart interface. On mobile, I just display a normal list.
  • yeknoda 2y ago
    This is good. The users this caters to are also higher than normal earners. Hate to ask, but what is the monetization plan?
    • xnx 2y ago
      Probably affiliate commission
    • mg 2y ago
      Affiliate commissions and license fees from companies who want to use the interface for their use-cases.
  • CamperBob2 2y ago
    Good idea, but wow, the popup mechanism is obnoxious. It needs to be off to the side in a fixed location that doesn't obscure what you're looking at, or make you chase the 'Hide' button with your mouse.
    • mg 2y ago
      Hmm... the way I use it is that when I put the mouse on an item, that is the one I am looking at. So it is fine that some others are hidden. And when I want to see all items again, I move the mouse into an empty area (usually right next to the item I just looked at) so the popup goes away. Also, I usually use the filters first. Say for laptops, I set the screen size to >=12inch and the weight to <=3pounds. So there ain't that many items left on the screen. Do you use it differently?
• w4rh4wk5 2y ago
  Tracy [1] is the first thing that comes to my mind, then RenderDoc [2]. After that Visual Studio while debugging. In general, I think graphical debuggers and profiling tools do a relatively good job of packing lots of information into many, small windows. [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy [2] https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc
• whalesalad 2y ago
  https://www.netdata.cloud https://www.netdata.cloud manages to pack quite a lot into one experience.
• thesurlydev 2y ago
  Once upon a time I day traded and the go-to interface was TradingView[1] [1] https://www.tradingview.com/ https://www.tradingview.com/
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• n4kana 2y ago
  Project management software that includes customizable dashboards, gantt charts or kanban. Spreadsheet apps are the definition of high information density UIs that you manage through zooming. Audio DAW or video production apps jam tiny buttons and indicators all over the place. A mixing console is the epitome of this. Shit, the cockpit of a plane. AutoCAD. Stock trading apps. These aren’t great in the web UI sense - the pattern that emerges is that dense UIs are for experts or people who dedicate a lot of time to learning the UI and appreciate the long-term efficiency that short term inefficient brings.
• chromy 2y ago
  Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs: - https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-performance-analyzer-to-identify-slow-windows-10-shutdown https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/ https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/) Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software. Not on the data side but can be useful just for contrast from todays software: - https://www.zachtronics.com/wmp-skins/ https://www.zachtronics.com/wmp-skins/ - https://cari.institute/aesthetics https://cari.institute/aesthetics
  • wackget 2y ago
    As someone who recently tried to use Blender for an extremely simple task... Blender's UI is absolutely terrible and should not be used as an example of anything except how to design an unintuitive UI.
    • chromy 2y ago
      I think intuitiveness and density are orthogonal properties (although often both desirable). Regarding Blender specifically: Do you have a background in 3D modeling? I am genuinely curious. I don't come from an digital art background and I bounced off Blenders UI several times but after doing a tutorial or two now I find I can use it for simple things. I have always wondered how much it was 3D modeling in general vs. Blender specifically. In a similar case I have used both Inkscape and Illustrator as an amateur and, much as I love open source, there is no comparison. Illustrator was significantly easier to use and worked better.
    • jwagenet 2y ago
      Professional tools are often made for the efficiency of a professional user and are hard to grok at first glance. Other examples from the parent, like DAWs, suffer from this and Blender is no exception. By all accounts it used to be a lot worse.
    • 2y ago
• aristofun 2y ago
  SOunds almost like the opposite sides of the spectrum. With some exceptions and edge cases (like trading or aviation where you have to see a lot of information at once, density is the product in itself) I argue that by "good" UI most UI users really mean "well structured and carefully prioritized information that doesn't overwhelm you" (aka "low information density"). It is really hard to find good UI in that sense. Apple is doing okay job in their iOS and macOS UI in general. Modern car makers (some of them at least) reached a pretty good point when a lot of complexity is hidden behind a very intuitive UI. Btw, Apple was expected to be good at UIs because of its history of _inheriting_ xerox's military UI research achievements.
  • dredmorbius 2y ago
    That's a fair point, and my own earlier example (newspaper-like layout for online news) links through to the source "lite" article ... which is laid out with ample whitespace and no distractions. Which contrasts to the typical online news article which is littered with advertisements and "Related" links (which are not in fact related), as well as multiple calls-to-action for newsletters, registrations, donations, and all the rest (WaPo, NPR, PBS, and others all come to mind). Not to mention autoplay video and audio, dickbars, etc., etc. My front page is information dense. Its job is to convey what current breaking news is. It is text-only, partly because incorporating images from upstream is complicated, but mostly because those images convey no useful information. "Information appropriate" is probably a better overall term, where for survey or multiple-element presentation should have many discrete items, but where detailed presentation focuses on one and only one item, which can be read in depth without distraction. That said, not having shit that moves in either case is a huge improvement over Web defaults these days.
• abound 2y ago
  I didn't see anyone mention the McMaster-Carr website [1]. It may not be the "densest" out there, but it's clean, functional, and nicely presents a lot of information at once. [1] https://www.mcmaster.com/ https://www.mcmaster.com/
  • calvinmorrison 2y ago
    of of course, RockAuto.com
    • whalesalad 2y ago
      one of the most unconventional websites ever for sure
      • vvpan 2y ago
        Very ext.js looking.
  • agumonkey 2y ago
    And there's something utilitarian in its internal and external design. No flashy, no fancy.. 99% informational and low lag.
    • CleanCoder 2y ago
      The low lag part is especially impressive. Here is Wes Bos taking a deeper dive into the intricacies of technologies used to accomplish this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8KhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8KhQ
      • flanbiscuit 2y ago
        related: https://syntax.fm/show/855/fast-websites-the-new-speculation-rules-api https://syntax.fm/show/855/fast-websites-the-new-speculation...
      • agumonkey 2y ago
• downboots 2y ago
  WinDirStat or QDirStat
• throwaway39875 2y ago
  Most ECAD software packages have very high information density - look at Altium Designer, Mentor XPedition, OrCAD Cadence, Proteus PCB, Eagle, or KiCAD for examples.
• danielvaughn 2y ago
  I’ve been on a similar journey, and I haven’t found any good resources. Much of the low-density trend can be traced back to Tailwind. I love the library, but I do find it frustrating that pretty much all designers lean towards low-density by default. The problem is that it only works well for casual/consumer applications. Once you start building for professional, productivity-driven products, you need density. One shining example I can think of is: https://usgraphics.com/ https://usgraphics.com/
  • smoe 2y ago
    I think Tailwind didn't start the trend, but continued from what Bootstrap and Material Design started in the 2010s
    • danielvaughn 2y ago
      Kind of, though Refactoring UI recommended it explicitly, and it influenced a lot of contemporary work.
  • ashwinsundar 2y ago
    How did Tailwind contribute to the low-density trend? I use it a lot and don't really find myself forced to create "low-density" sites based on any decision by the library-makers.
    • danielvaughn 2y ago
      I should’ve specified Tailwind UI. The book Refactoring UI explicitly says “use more whitespace than you think you need”, and that bit of advice is evident in all the components that Tailwind UI offers. They do look nice, but it’s become so heavily used that designers lean on it reflexively, rather than considering whether it makes sense in that context.
  • eddyg 2y ago
    Their X feed is fantastic: https://x.com/usgraphics https://x.com/usgraphics
• drewcoo 2y ago
  Does the cockpit of a 747 count as "UI" for this task? https://www.popsci.com/747-cockpit-tour-mark-vanhoenacker/ https://www.popsci.com/747-cockpit-tour-mark-vanhoenacker/
• Scarblac 2y ago
  Airplane cockpits are an obvious example (but not on a computer screen, of course). All the controls readily available.
• thih9 2y ago
  Programs used by pro creatives. Some people regularly spend 8h/day using a single such product as their primary work tool. E.g. pro desktop versions of photo, print, video, sound, etc editing software usually feature good UX and high information density. One well known example of that is Blender - here is a chapter from their manual about its user interface: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_system/introduction.html https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/interface/window_s...
  • turnsout 2y ago
    This is the answer! Information density is not inherently a virtue. For many tasks, you want to focus the user's attention, which usually means less density. But professionals often want as much as possible accessible from a single screen, so they don't need to click around too much. In addition to creative software, look at professional stock/crypto trading platforms, EHRs, POS systems, CRMs, or any software targeted at a vertical—veterinarians, fleet management software, etc. Many of them will run counter to "good UI" best practices. But if you interview their users, you might be surprised by what they love about these interfaces.
  • lazyhideous 2y ago
    Agreed! I use Cinema 4D, Illustrator and other tools on the daily and I love the fact that I can rearrange my panels how I need. That's something that I notice modern web-based UIs based on 1960s gestalt doesn't really have. Plus all of them are dense because of functions, not for fluff. I really, really like Cinema 4D for that reason, their design choices are top notch.
  • jorvi 2y ago
    I am still hoping that one day we get an open source image editing application to the level of Photoshop (and for Darktable to become as good as Aperture / Lightroom). One of the things that Blender did right is adhering to industry standards, especially keybinds. When Blender did their huge UI rework they decided to normalize to the keybinds of its closed-source competitors, along with some of the workflows. Meanwhile open source image editors go out of their way to have keybinds, workflows and button placement that deviate significantly from Photoshop. Smells strongly of NIH.
• jarboot 2y ago
  godel terminal, prosperous universe
• coldpie 2y ago
  I feel the Ars Technica front page in List View (you have to pick List View at the top!!) is quite nicely dense. Just a straightforward headline, blurb, and image list. https://arstechnica.com/ https://arstechnica.com/
  • gjsman-1000 2y ago
    Too bad the website somehow has comments which make Reddit look saintly. Seriously, their moderation is abhorrent.
• threetonesun 2y ago
  My go to for UI inspiration especially packing in a lot of information in a small space are mobile apps in the audio editing/creating domain. Loopy Pro is one I always bring up, but there are a lot of audio apps that have to fit a lot of information on the screen at once while being highly intuitive because the app itself is not the primary interface, a midi controller or instrument is.
• aaron695 2y ago
  [dead]
• obsolete_wagie 2y ago
  apollo.io
  • ashwinsundar 2y ago
    I don't find this site to be particularly information-dense. There is a lot of scrolling needed just to extract a few sentences of info about what this site even is. Although the graphics and design are cool.
• boris 2y ago
  In our package repository web interface we aimed for high information density over design fluff: https://cppget.org https://cppget.org Especially our builds page.
  • Eduard 2y ago
    my quick impression while browsing on smartphone: the website uses way too often ellipses.
• globnomulous 2y ago
  https://www.weather.gov/ https://www.weather.gov/
• toddwprice 2y ago
  https://www.edwardtufte.com/ https://www.edwardtufte.com/
  • radiorental 2y ago
    The premise of Tufte's work make sense until you try to apply it to functional and usable user interfaces. He has strong opinions strongly held but as someone who's designed industrial strength UIs for over 20 years (networking CLIs & UIs, CAD modeling/simulation, Devops dashboards, cybersecurity tooling) I've read all his books, attended his lectures... he's a king with no clothes
    • deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]
  • gwern 2y ago
    Unfortunately, the site was butchered a year or two ago with a redesign to make it look like a garden-variety Wordpress blog. A ton of content disappeared. The front page is reasonably dense, although one might also just call it cluttered, but the subpages are worse - sometimes a single paragraph lost in a sea of wrappers.
• robinwarren 2y ago
  The ft has some good stuff, this is probably a good jumping off point https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6e85 https://www.ft.com/content/c7bb24c9-964d-479f-ba24-03a2b2df6...
• rft 2y ago
  I find Geizhals' filtering options reasonably compact and information dense. https://geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512&xf=132_16384&pg=1&view=list https://geizhals.de/?cat=gra16_512&xf=132_16384&pg=1&view=li... I like the simple table view of RPiLocator. Only a few columns, but lots of rows, no unneeded clutter. https://rpilocator.com/ https://rpilocator.com/ Not as compact as possible, but at least shows quite some information: GSMArena. It could fit more phones into the comparison table with less whitespace/greyspace though. https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=10386&idPhone3=12937&idPhone2=12170 https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=10386&idPhone... All sites as viewed on desktop, on mobile this would likely not work out. I also want to echo the command line tools mention in another comment. GDB's TUI is reasonable for my use, but after some experience this recently posted terminal debugger might be better: https://github.com/al13n321/nnd https://github.com/al13n321/nnd via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43905185 Also the hex editor I am currently using, despite some problems: https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex An example of an information dense GUI that might be a bit overwhelming is Ghidra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra (page includes a basic screenshot, you can fill your screen(s) with as many sub windows and information panes as you want) As a side note, while trying to find examples I realized just how few websites there are (any more?) that show a lot of information at the same time. Worst recent offender is YouTube's redesign with only 3 video tiles in a row on a 1440p screen, luckily easily fixed via a ublock rule.
  • netsharc 2y ago
    English version of Geizhals: https://skinflint.co.uk https://skinflint.co.uk
• smoe 2y ago
  Ableton Live digital audio workstation, is a good example in my opinion. As with many professional tools, there is a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes very productive. There are many nested collapsible sections, so you can choose to have an all-at-once view or focus on fewer elements. Here is a blog post talking about the different ui elements http://nenadmilosevic.co/ableton-live-redesign/ http://nenadmilosevic.co/ableton-live-redesign/
• 1970-01-01 2y ago
  There are 3 hands on a clock because 4 is too many to be useful and 2 is not quite enough to launch a tactical military strike.
• abraxas 2y ago
  I'd say the OLD Bank of Nova Scotia page is a good example. There are a lot of details and almost everything is a hyperlink but it's quite easy to navigate once you've used it a few times. The new UI they are trying to publish is the opposite of that and being resisted by long term customers. Currently both are in use. I'm sorry but can't put a screenshot without risking leaks of my personal info. here are a couple of screenshots I found on public pages: https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/5be07d872c7d3a01757ace3a/images/5c4776912c7d3a66e32d82cc/701308 https://d33v4339jhl8k0.cloudfront.net/docs/assets/5be07d872c... https://www.scotiaitrade.com/content/dam/slf/images/HowToAccess.png/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.png https://www.scotiaitrade.com/content/dam/slf/images/HowToAcc...
• tnolet 2y ago
  The basic, classic Salesforce UI. In this screenshot the classic is on the left, the new one they pushed already years ago on the right: https://www.newfangled.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LEXOpportunity.png https://www.newfangled.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LEXOpp...
• mikedelfino 2y ago
  I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but these two come to mind: - Mixx: https://mixxx.org/screenshots/ https://mixxx.org/screenshots/ - darktable: https://www.darktable.org/about/screenshots/ https://www.darktable.org/about/screenshots/
  • longtimelistnr 2y ago
    shout out to mixxx, a truly excellent piece of free software
  • Daishiman 2y ago
    Mixxx is fantastic software. Definitely better than the supposed "industry-standard" Rekordbox.
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• achr2 2y ago
  This is my own software, but – as a project engineering data exploration tool – high information and functional density was a key goal: https://engdata.com/ https://engdata.com/
  • gr33nq 2y ago
    What UI framework did you use to build this? I love these types of interfaces in native applications.
    • achr2 2y ago
      This was build originally with WPF and C#, but with an in-house MVVM framework. I have been slowly moving it to Avalonia, which I highly recommend.
  • replwoacause 2y ago
    Looks impressive
• khaki54 2y ago
  Netvibes if you set it up that way. I use it for RSS feeds by Federal Agency, filtered by some concepts and keywords. https://imgur.com/a/TtruELg https://imgur.com/a/TtruELg
• pavel-novikau 2y ago
  [dead]
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• radiorental 2y ago
  Grafana can get pretty info dense very quickly. Try some of the dashboards or the Explore feature here https://play.grafana.org/ https://play.grafana.org/ I worked there as a product designer for a couple of years, I now work on even more data dense UI in the cyber security domain, e.g. https://elastio.com/blog/cyber-recovery/three-clicks-to-ransomware-recovery/ https://elastio.com/blog/cyber-recovery/three-clicks-to-rans... As with almost all UI design the answer is "It Depends". If you could provide a little more context around the domain you're working in I'm sure I could point you at some specific examples
• jedberg 2y ago
  https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com We used to have an even denser display, but they sadly got rid of it. It was the original reddit mobile interface (served as a webpage, not an app). There is a screenshot on this blog post (by one of the guys who worked on it): https://pdx.su/blog/2023-04-06-rip-reddit-compact/ https://pdx.su/blog/2023-04-06-rip-reddit-compact/
  • hightrix 2y ago
    Came here to say the same. Old Reddit is such a fantasticly dense, yet readable UI. It doesn't have too much whitespace, but there is enough so there's always room to click on nothing. It is absolutely my preferred UI for consuming large amounts of information quickly.
    • metalliqaz 2y ago
      Reddit absolutely dropped the ball with the redesign
      • pier25 2y ago
        And they keep dropping it... They migrated from that React SPA to Lit web components and the UX still sucks
      • lazyhummingbird 2y ago
        The most egregious and unforgivable part of their failed redesign is that they forced adoption by redirecting and walling mobile visits and attacking third party apps. And the sole motivation for the redesign? Monetize the content users created. More ads. Force you to see images automatically so ad images and videos show up with the “this is an ad” text below the scroll instead of needing to earn your interest and permission first. As bad or worse than the shift to algo vs time based social content.
    • c6p 2y ago
      It's not quite like the old Reddit, but I created a userscript[1] that makes the new Reddit interface denser by displaying posts in multiple columns. [1] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/371490-reddit-multi-column https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/371490-reddit-multi-column
• jcalx 2y ago
  The Bloomberg Terminal [0] has been very high-density and high-contrast since its early days of being an 80x25 terminal interface. Some would say it's not the prettiest UI (although as a former employee I still have a soft spot for it) but it's incredibly functional and also unmistakeable at a distance. [0] https://assets.bbhub.io/image/v1/resize?width=auto&type=webp&url=https://assets.bbhub.io/company/sites/51/2022/05/LaunchPad-1536x864.png https://assets.bbhub.io/image/v1/resize?width=auto&type=webp...
• k2enemy 2y ago
  I really like the density and legibility of weather underground's forecasts: https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san_jose https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san_jose
  • pinko 2y ago
    Used to be so much better before the acquisition, but I agree, they were wonderful at it for a while and some of the UI remains.
    • amitp 2y ago
      Agree. Weatherspark is great too — https://weatherspark.com/map?pageType=4&yearNumber=2025&ids=45062 https://weatherspark.com/map?pageType=4&yearNumber=2025&ids=... Each of those icons is a full year of weather data. Left to right is Jan to Dec. Bottom to top is the hours of the day. The pixel color tells you cold vs hot.
• anilgulecha 2y ago
  Chrome Devtools (and firebug) are classic, well thought out dense interfaces. so are VSCode, Jetbrains IDEs.
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• emmanueloga_ 2y ago
  Chrome debugger tools? htop? visidata [1]? Clicker games are interesting in that they start bare and end up filling the screen with controls. Rerun visualizations come to mind too [2]. -- 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU 2: https://rerun.io/viewer https://rerun.io/viewer
• Zaheer 2y ago
  We think about information density a lot at Levels.fyi. I don't think we're perfect but we do have a fairly dense UX: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?countryId=254&country=254 https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer?countryId=254&cou...
  • Eduard 2y ago
    I gave up after the third popup.
• chambers 2y ago
  Agoda has worked well for me.
• vasco 2y ago
  Datadog does a good job with their logs explorer and custom dashboards.
  • nathan_douglas 2y ago
    Yeah, Datadog's pretty amazing at having an absolute ton of depth but concealing most of the complexity behind a friendly-ish interface. Came into this thread to compliment them in particular. (If anyone from Datadog reads this, please 1) introduce a hobbyist tier so I can afford to use DD on my Pi bramble, 2) consider hiring me, or 3) both)
• layer8 2y ago
  The Outlook calendar comes to mind: https://aspisfun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/outlookcalendar-2048x1506.jpg https://aspisfun.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/outlook... More: https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=outlook+calendar https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=outlook+calendar
• SkyeCA 2y ago
  I think e621 would count. (Disclaimer it's a highly NSFW furry booru so I'm not going to provide a link on HN) It has has one of (if not) the best tagging systems of any website and between the tags and search filters you can find anything you like. Each page has a header with useful links, a list of tags to the left, and a grid of paginated images with basic stats on the rest of the page. Click an image and you get a bigger version of it with download options, all of the tags that apply to it specifically, and comments from users. It's basically as good as it can be.
• pinko 2y ago
  Craigslist!
  • alabastervlog 2y ago
    Came here to suggest this. It's one of the only sites my dad (aged in his 80s) can use unassisted and not regularly become confused or lost, yet is "ugly" and "has bad UX" (LOL, OK, sure) and is certainly information dense.
• Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  Some video games have them, mostly the ones with customizable UIs like Eve Online [0], World of Warcraft and the like. "Pro" trading websites, for stocks or cryptocurrencies (e.g. Kraken and Coinbase have different interfaces for regular and "pro" users) [0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Panagiotis-Zaharias/publication/220686474/figure/fig2/AS:650792453279745@1532172420453/A-typical-screen-of-the-EVE-user-interface-while-docked-at-a-station.png https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Panagiotis-Zaharias/pub... [1] https://mtthwx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wowow.jpg https://mtthwx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/wowow.jpg (silly example)
• VladVladikoff 2y ago
  Google now forces designers to make huge interfaces on mobile. Tap targets smaller than 54px get a “tap target too small” penalty applied to the sites usability score. This score in turn can hurt your rankings for mobile searches. Which can in turn damage your business. So what are we to do?
  • yencabulator 2y ago
    The 48x48px touch target is estimated to be ~9mm. That's tiny for touching by finger, since you can't see through your finger to aim (styluses could do it). For mobile, look for UX patterns that don't hinge on my big thumb hitting a tiny patch of screen. For example, gestures like swipe to either side to expose actions for item. Most of the things talked about in this thread are not mobile UIs, and are not limited by such concerns. And finally, information density can be separate from available action density.
    • VladVladikoff 2y ago
      Yeah, I have really big fingers as well. However for web forms, this rule really does make everything look too big IMHO. There are cascading impacts of these decisions as well, a field which is 48px tall must have a significant amount of padding around it as well, to look balanced with the field size. Typically the rule of thumb i've seen designers use is 50% of the field height. When you factor in field label sitting above the field things get even bigger. I did however recently find a pretty nice solution which moves the field label inside the field, allowing for a slightly more compact layout while still hitting the tap target size requirements. https://m2.material.io/components/text-fields#filled-text-field https://m2.material.io/components/text-fields#filled-text-fi...
      • yencabulator 2y ago
        > There are cascading impacts of these decisions as well, a field which is 48px tall must have a significant amount of padding around it as well, to look balanced with the field size. My podcast app shows a list of episodes etc as just rows with only subtle horizontal lines separating them (no "cards"). There's 3-4 lines of text with just a little bit of whitespace inside each block, a button on the right, and dragging the row left/right shows more buttons. Below the Android-global-convention top nav there's room for 7 episodes on my phone's screen size. I genuinely wouldn't want the text to be any smaller. The screen is not wide enough to use a multi-column grid without wrapping episode title text like crazy. Thus, the only way to compact that more vertically would be not showing as much metadata (date, download size etc seem unnecessary; maybe pinch-zoom to expand details of a single row when wanted). I could accept that, but even then given my not-great eyesight, the icon and episode title take up as much vertical space as the button. As long as it displays a recognizable icon, a two-line title, and duration and current offset, the button will fit just fine. Mobile just has inherent limitations, both because of small screen size and because of inaccurate pointing.
• personjerry 2y ago
  When people talk about UI information density it always reminds me of this HN discussion about the flight controls on a plane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702560
• haiku2077 2y ago
  https://www.rockauto.com https://www.rockauto.com is the best experience I've had finding parts for cars. It's designed so you can find the compatible parts as quickly as possibly and organizes the options by price range.
• olalonde 2y ago
  High density UIs are the norm in China. Check out Meituan, Taobao, https://qq.com https://qq.com, https://4399.com https://4399.com, etc.
• theyknowitsxmas 2y ago
  PeopleSoft imo, but I haven't tried it since college and have no idea if they jumped on the modern, big button for grandpa bandwagon.
• sxp 2y ago
  Edward Tufte had a good series of books on how to create high density infographics: https://www.edwardtufte.com/books/ https://www.edwardtufte.com/books/ However, the books are old and specifically call out the low resolution computer displays at the time. Does anyone have an updated list of references for high density visual information? Bret Victor's https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ was a good starting point for me.
• x86afficionado 2y ago
  sandpile.org especially the opcode tables
• dbl000 2y ago
  It's not just information density but rather intended use design. A lot of engineering/manufacturing parts suppliers tend to have good information dense websites that are really catered to their customers for finding parts. Take mouser.com, digikey.com, grainger.com rockauto.com or mcmaster.com. They all have a bit of a "landing page" but once you go to search for parts you've got something that was really designed to be an intuitive parts search. Compare that with jameco.com which competes with mouser/digikey but has a more classic webshop search system. It’s a bit more frustrating to use. Some news sites also do a great job of presenting headlines and highlights well in a small area. I think semafor.com is probably my current favorite, but I'll readily admit that it's not the most information dense. CAD software also tends to be good at this, but that might be just because the UI has chugged along since the 90's. AutoCAD/Inventor/Solidworks/SolidEdge/KiCAD/Altium/Virtuoso are all great examples where if you've got prior experience with them (or even similar software) you can sit down and quickly get up to speed on a project and see what's been done. I think the distinction is that a lot of software/websites are designed to keep the average user focused on a single aspect and so they are designed to either remove or hide the complexity but for more “professional” level tools you need all that data and information. You can probably blame (for better or for worse) material UI for a lot of this spaced-out thing. In my mind that was the first mobile first UI scheme that really took off and it's basically influenced everything that's come sense then. Computer first software might be your best bet to get some examples. Because a lot of the web is mobile first/mobile forward now you probably aren't going to find a lot of examples on that. I would love to see examples of information dense mobile first sites. A few other examples I just wanted to brain dump: - labgopher.com - tld-list.com - The Bloomberg Terminal - Ghidra - Most plane cockpits, especially modern fighter planes if you ever get to see/sit on one. - A lot of “professional level creative software” – Reaper, Affinity - Train control and monitoring systems
• codingclaws 2y ago
  I develop a HN/Reddit clone [0] that has high density settings. The home page is fairly high density by default. But if you go into the settings [1], then you can really crank up the home page UI density by setting posts per page to 50 and post spacing to 2. The density is more apparent on desktop since the lines don't wrap. [0] https://www.commentcastles.org https://www.commentcastles.org [1] https://www.commentcastles.org/settings https://www.commentcastles.org/settings
• meew0 2y ago
  Any EMR (electronic medical record) would probably fit this description. For example Epic, the leading one in the US: https://www.emrsystems.net/epic-ehr-software/ https://www.emrsystems.net/epic-ehr-software/ Or Orbis, the leading one in Europe: (there's not many good screenshots of it online but this PDF has a few) https://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Kundeninfos/DE/09/2023/32261-23_kundeninfo_de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile https://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Kundeninfos/DE/09/2023/32261... There's a myriad of other ones as well, they all have similar UIs, with the primary goals being to never hide any important info from the user, and to let the user take important actions quickly. That naturally leads to high density. Nevertheless it needs to be reasonably intuitive, since doctors and nurses tend to not be very tech-savvy, which leads to some interesting design constraints.
  • maxverse 2y ago
    I worked as an EMR consultant for a few years, helping teach medical staff to use these things. The thing that struck me was that while some of the UIs look "outdated" by web standards, the software often did a great of taking medical staff through their daily workflows. I feel like a lot of websites do the opposite - they look nice, but using them is a pain. (Conversely, most staff hated new EMRs, because it enforced doing things the hospital wants its staff to do for liability and billing, but the staff doesn't want to do - for example, asking Maternity nurses to talk to new mothers about smoking cessation.)
  • Onavo 2y ago
    They are infamous for being trash and difficult to use though. There's an entire field of "EMR consultants". It's also why there's a EMR startup on hacker news every other week.
    • IIsi50MHz 2y ago
      The outcome can vary wildly, even in the same EMR software, depending on the implementing team. I worked a place where it was the implementation team's first time, but they listened heavily to requests from different departments. The most common request was to reduce the number of different views and screens, compared to the old custom software that was being replaced. Resizable fonts without having to change screen resolutions was another one.Staff also wanted to keep the rest as much the same as possible, but add a few little things here and there.. The new EMR software was highly configurable, so lots of this happened. Staff teams signed off on it, and had training from the implementation team. Fewer screens? Check! …Wellll, sorta: some very long scrolling views…which didn't play nice with mousewheels. It would seem like the page randomly and mysteriously stoppe scrolling, then suddenly scroll normally. There were lots of weird data entry errors, from all staff, regardless of prior reputation for accuracy. They were just getting used to new software, right? Nope. I tracked this down to the dropdown lists scattered on the long scrolling pages. As a page scrolled, random lists ate scroll events, changed the list item to either the first or last item, then permitted scrolling to continue. Fonts worked mostly great…except some of the typefaces follow the should-be-criminal design of allowing various characters to to look identical. Font sizing worked as expected. I think Pre-cert desk liked Candara, for the way numbers stood out. Notes fields…these were our downfall, sometimes multiple times per day. Anything put into them was inserted as raw text into SQL: Patient said xxxxxxx -- ESR …or… something-something 'quoted thing' …would mean the database locked up, no exams savable or queryable, no patient intake, no checkout until I.T. admin could fix it. The implementation team was gone, and non-responsive, so sticky notes with a list of forbidden characters seemed to be everywhere. I believe some contracts for referrals were lost, due to delays and errors. Some staff quit, after months of no fixes. But I later heard from one of the most affected staffers that the same EMR software was installed at our biggest competitor, and no issues at all.
• JohnMakin 2y ago
  Dwarf Fortress
• jdthedisciple 2y ago
  Definitely https://lichess.org https://lichess.org
• csomar 2y ago
  If you are looking for a UI framework, checkout IBM Carbon: https://carbondesignsystem.com https://carbondesignsystem.com I used it to build a merge conflict tool: https://codeinput.com https://codeinput.com and while it required a much deeper understanding than just reading the docs (tons of bugs), it is by far the most comprehensive UI framework out there. Most UIs either lack lots of components or are made by a couple front-end/react/css guys. This inevitably means that they lack research into things like typography, accessibility, patterns, etc..
  • jFriedensreich 2y ago
    I thought about carbon too, but unfortunately it gives me extreme IBM cloud ptsd. The number of bad associations products building on that design system have to start with is probably not worth the time savings.
    • csomar 2y ago
      I am not sure there is that many people (beside IBM) that are using it. In fact, they have a pretty much dead Discord channel with very few users. My only explanation was either people didn't like the very corporate style or that it had a steep initial cost to implement. > but unfortunately it gives me extreme IBM cloud ptsd Sure. It did give me some of that PTSD but then every UI framework I struggled with had lacking that gave me severe headaches. At some point I realized that Carbon is not that bad after all.
      • soulofmischief 2y ago
        I brought it to production and had to fork some packages due to incomplete APIs, and there was a lot of glue code and writing custom components because the existing ones didn't meet my needs. It looks great but in the end it took more of a backseat than I'd have wished. But under the hood, the architecture of the current major version is great. Clean, modern best practices, especially regarding styling.
    • adithyareddy 2y ago
      Palantir's Blueprint UI toolkit might scratch the same itch if you're looking to build very functional, dense UIs: https://blueprintjs.com/docs/ https://blueprintjs.com/docs/
• jFriedensreich 2y ago
  One of the motivations i build lanes.pm (a project management tool) was to counter that the only information dense UIs still being around seem to be spreadsheets / table views. Tables have their place but also lots of drawbacks for many workflows. One other great example is ableton live and a few other pro video/ 3d/ music suites. Especially ableton live is as dense as possible while still feeling elegant without tripping over or feeling fiddly.
• trinix912 2y ago
  Software made for professionals/power users in the late 90s/early 2000s. Microsoft Project 2000, Total Commander, Borland Delphi IDE, Final Cut before version 10, older versions of Adobe AfterEffects...
• nathanmcrae 2y ago
  Aeronautical charts have incredible information density. https://skyvector.com/ https://skyvector.com/ for zoomable charts
  • _kb 2y ago
    Nautical charts too: https://www.admiralty.co.uk/charts https://www.admiralty.co.uk/charts. There’s an astonishing good balance of density and clarity of information needed to make these useful. This then also has to translate across both physical and screen forms. Chart 5011 has a great breakdown on the depth of symbology too.
• postalcoder 2y ago
  I'm working on a Hacker News front page with the idea of UI density as a foundational concept. https://hcker.news https://hcker.news I haven't did a Show HN yet but I'd love to get some feedback on it first. It's got a lot of configurable views and can be made extremely dense (dense mode on + columns: auto). The aesthetic itself was made to deviate as little from the HN frontpage as possible. It's got a lot of filtering knick knacks like being able to view by top comments/points, view hn as a timeline of top stories by comments or stories or view hn by top n over day/week/month/year/custom.
  • dang 2y ago
    How do you decide which stories to include in the list for a given day, and how to rank them?
    • postalcoder 2y ago
      In timeline mode, it's just a pure top 10/20/50/100 stories by points (or comments, if chosen) for each day (in your time zone). The stories are presented in chronological order in which they were submitted (top is newest). The timeline view can get wonky when it's like 12AM-2AM when there are relatively few stories in "today". Misc: 1) it doesn't filter out flagged stories 2) second-chance pooled items, should they rise in ranks, will be shown on the day the item was originally submitted, not the day it got popular. I may do to a "rising" type of view but I'm curious about what others want to see first.
    • divbzero 2y ago
      Thanks for keeping the HN API open for these alternative UIs.
      • dang 2y ago
        I think more of this is probably in HN's future, if it's to thrive long-term.
  • divbzero 2y ago
    The official HN front page is already pretty good on UI density, so it’s promising that you’re using that as a starting point. Is there any chance https://hcker.news https://hcker.news is related to https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com? The dense layout feels similar.
• kccqzy 2y ago
  The desktop version of Charles Schwab's expert trading platform, thinkorswim. Or TWS from Interactive Brokers. Basically these are trading platforms designed for day traders and the highest end of the retail investors market. These necessarily have to good high-information density UIs: imagine trading an option showing all strikes (SPX has hundreds of strikes), both calls and puts, and showing the option Greeks (delta/gamma/vega) and pricing information (bid/ask) for each option. Then you need to give users ability to quickly send trades. You need to support complex strategies: an iron condor has four legs for example. You need to support complex orders like stops and limits and combinations thereof and these need to be built via an UI with THEN/AND/OCO relationships. Some will want a fast-updating candlestick chart; others will want to see the order book; still others will want to plot probabilities or expected prices using Black Scholes model. It's complex. You should sign up for paper trading and see these UIs feel like.
  • saratogacx 2y ago
    I was thinking the same thing. I've used TOS for years (2010) and it is crammed with info while still being fairly easy to use. The fact that you can also group multiple UI elements to always show the same symbol (change one, they all follow) lets you go a bit nuts in the analysis dashboards you can make. The TOS mobile app is also not too bad. A couple of years ago they tried to add some less data-dense info to the main screen and the they got a review riot which caused them to make the view optional and untouched sense then. I've got a lot of respect for them being able to keep that UI stable for so long.
  • mysteria 2y ago
    One thing I like about TWS is that related widgets (candlestick chart, newsfeed, L2 table, etc.) can be easily linked or separated. For example I can link a chart and a newsfeed together and if I switch the chart to a specific stock the newsfeed will switch over as well. Another commenter has mentioned that this is a TOS feature as well. Those widgets can be resized and moved around on a grid and I can create different tabs with separate layout for each.
• whartung 2y ago
  I have to add this. Back in the day, we sold accounting systems. Now the beauty of accounting is that everyone needs accounting, the fundamentals are all quite solid and common, but even still, everyone does accounting differently. Matter of taste of the Controller, industry specific bits, etc. While everyone has a chart of accounts, no two chart of accounts are the same. So, anyway, we ate our own dog food, we used our own accounting system in house for, you know, accounting stuff. But the funny thing is that when you opened up the Accounts Receivable Invoice screen, and this is on an 80x25 color terminal, I would say it was 60%+ a collection of fields regarding the invoice. Customer, dates, terms, etc. Probably 20 fields on that screen, all crammed together, because real estate was always an issue on 80x25 terminals. But, we were a simple business, and the bulk of those fields are optional for specific use cases, and those options are based on the customer. So, when you entered in the customer for the invoice, 80% of the fields just vanished from the screen. Feature of the system. But it made a very busy screen into something quite stark. It doesn't resize, it just makes the field go away. The top half of the screen was, essentially, blank. I always found it amusing to see all of that information vanish.
• anteloper 2y ago
  https://craigslist.org/ https://craigslist.org/
  • 91bananas 2y ago
    I will go against the grain here and suggest that this UI has become gracefully more and more terrible after being pretty good like 5-10 years ago. The more they have tried to do the worse the core functionality has become.
• bluefirebrand 2y ago
  I worked on software for doctors to use at clinics for a while and hands down those programs have some of the most information dense UIs I have ever seen. Doctors want everything possible on a single screen, it's wild Unfortunately I don't really know how to get screenshots or examples for you, given the nature of healthcare data privacy and such But I would suggest searching around and seeing what you can find for clinic software. I bet you can turn something up
  • biofox 2y ago
    This is a great example! In the UK, most GPs use SystmOne. Some screenshots: https://support-s1.ardens.org.uk/support/solutions/articles/31000120464-general-consultation https://support-s1.ardens.org.uk/support/solutions/articles/...
  • IIsi50MHz 2y ago
    I would expect, from past experience, that you'd have at least one fake patient, with made-up details for all tests, images voluteered (and signed off) for the purpse, and other nonce data. (-:
• santa_boy 2y ago
  Great post. Would love some good samples of "news paper" like sites too
• rroose 2y ago
  Vitaly Friedman gives a great talk on complex UIs: https://youtu.be/2hlQqMigGZg?feature=shared https://youtu.be/2hlQqMigGZg?feature=shared
• carlosjobim 2y ago
  BusyCal is a good example: https://www.busymac.com/busycal/ https://www.busymac.com/busycal/
• Jotalea 2y ago
  The Geometry Dash level editor. It is far from perfect, but it is pretty solid.
• ptspts 2y ago
  Is there a high information density (small font size, little whitespace, thin window borders, no transparency) GNOME theme, ready for everyday use in Ubuntu? Combined with a similar Chrome theme and Firefox theme, it would be awesome.
• dredmorbius 2y ago
  I'm building my own (for news): <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122 https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/114356066459105122> and <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e919db600cb8013eb7b8448a5b29e257 https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/e919db600cb8013eb7b844...> show screenshots and describe the interface. It's a locally-hosted, personal system, updated manually via shell scripts. The prototype is based off of CNN's "lite" headlines page (<https://lite.cnn.com/ https://lite.cnn.com/>), which presents 100 headlines in an unorganised fashion without context. My first cut simply organised the headlines by section and date. The version linked above includes several lede 'graphs for each article, along with some other formatting. It runs about 15 or so screens on either my desktop or mobile (large-format tablet) devices. I'm looking at extending the concept to other / additional news sources, largely as CNN's article offerings are disappointingly irrelevant. (Discussed in the Diaspora* thread.) Features I'm thinking of adding include: - Bayesian ordering by significance. (This will be based on my own article judgements used as training data.) - A "best of the interval" capability. - Adding in articles from several alternative sources. The Guardian will likely be the baseline given its well-structured nature, reasonably comprehensive news, and lack of a paywall. There are likely a few other sources I'll add. I'd like to include weather and perhaps some business ticker data as well. I've had previous ideas about a "news dashboard" which tracks significant indicators, and would like to try applying several of those concepts, if my coding chops are up to it. - Possibly a bit of visual flash, though from what I'm observing, virtually all graphics used on news sites are more distraction than value. - Incorporating eInk-Mode: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43690828>
• miffe 2y ago
  Do an image search for SCADA, they are the most information dense systems I've ever worked with.
  • camtarn 2y ago
    General PLC HMI (Programmable Logic Controller, Human Machine Interface) design as well. Here's a good example: https://rockwellautomation.scene7.com/is/image/rockwellautomation/16x9-asem-6300m-industrial-monitor-low-profile-bezel-left.2400.jpg https://rockwellautomation.scene7.com/is/image/rockwellautom... Not only is this showing details for every tank, valve, pump etc in the system, it's also highlighting those which have warnings or alarms against them, so the operator knows which values are nominal and which ones need action to be taken. Depending on the system, you may also be able to tap on each value to pop up a dialog which shows that value on a graph, lets you set alarm thresholds, or lets you switch a piece of equipment from automatic to manual control (from the operator station) or local control (from physical buttons on the equipment) or maintenance mode (safely locked out). I'm not claiming that all of these SCADA/PLC HMIs are good, but they're really interesting examples of what a user interface can look like when information density and usability matters more than being pretty, and where you can require your end users to have training to use the system.
• intended 2y ago
  Bloomberg terminals.
• codr7 2y ago
  Not a web site, but the best information I've come across on information density is Tufte's books.
• pentagrama 2y ago
  Here some that comes to mind: - Portmaster Url: https://safing.io/ https://safing.io/ Screenshot: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2f95620e28c8369cdcf94020e614a5b280706e37f6084adcb40af049368c4309/68747470733a2f2f736166696e672e696f2f6173736574732f696d672f706167652d73706563696669632f6c616e64696e672f706f72746d61737465722d7468756d626e61696c2e706e673f https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2f95620e28c8369cdcf94020e... - UnigetUI https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/#screenshots https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/#screenshots - Mixxx https://mixxx.org/screenshots/ https://mixxx.org/screenshots/ - VMware Workstation Url: https://www.vmware.com/products/desktop-hypervisor/workstation-and-fusion https://www.vmware.com/products/desktop-hypervisor/workstati... Screenshot: https://blogs.vmware.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09/ws-vSphere-Hosts-And-Clusters.png https://blogs.vmware.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2018/09... - Pi-hole (scroll down for screenshots) https://pi-hole.net/ https://pi-hole.net/ - The Movie Database https://www.themoviedb.org https://www.themoviedb.org - Steam https://store.steampowered.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/
  • heraldgeezer 2y ago
    You gave me some more ideas. Christitus Winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://i.imgur.com/v9RiOUI.png https://i.imgur.com/v9RiOUI.png Windows MMC consoles like Computer management, Cert manager etc. https://i.imgur.com/MqbpdBe.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/MqbpdBe.jpeg Windows ADUC Attribute Editor and ADUC in general https://i.imgur.com/VWrONfD.png https://i.imgur.com/VWrONfD.png Anything for Windows 2000s server admins before 2012 destroyed the UI
• exiguus 2y ago
  https://www.bahn.de/ https://www.bahn.de/ / https://www.webpagetest.org/result/250508_AiDc5H_8VR/ https://www.webpagetest.org/result/250508_AiDc5H_8VR/ Huge functionality with minimum cognitive load. IMO a mix of google and yahoo. Also the Android/iOS app of bahn.de is very intresting. Articles: - Density and Audition: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usability/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/windows-8-disappointing-usa... - Density is Cultural: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/china-website-complexity/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/china-website-complexity/ - Conventions: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/breaking-web-conventions/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/breaking-web-conventions/ - Information per cm² https://www.nngroup.com/articles/designing-effective-infographics/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/designing-effective-infogra...
• sltr 2y ago
  https://www.dict.cc/ https://www.dict.cc/
• somat 2y ago
  I vote blender. High density can and often is done wrong, but it is often the hallmark of interfaces for professional users, an intricate tool designed to be used as quick as passable for hours on end, to accomplish this you try and reduce intermediate steps. this means putting everything up front, redundant panels(to do the same thing from different viewpoints), no overlap(why obscure information?) etc. The end product usually ends up being intimidating as hell for new users. But is much more ergonomic for experienced ones.
• Curzel 2y ago
  Matchbook.com is a good example of something with a lot of numbers, the apps are especially good (you might need international dns depending on your region)
• throwaway2037 2y ago
  > What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)? Ask that exact same question to someone from the AngloAmerican sphere and Japan/Korea. They will answer very differently. This is a widely studied cultural communication difference. Japan/Korea can handle incredibly dense communictation mediums, but AngloAmericans cannot. Neither is wrong, but they are both economically important cultural spheres.
• nitwit005 2y ago
  Try doing a Google search for "Call center software" or "workforce scheduling software" and clicking images. They have also been victimized by the designers wanting a ton of whitespace, but those are both spaces where the customers push back.
• paddy_m 2y ago
  I call it Trader UI vs VC UI. Traders want as much info jammed onto the screen as possible. VC backed companies use bootstrap, and want rounded corners on a pricing page with little actual information. I have been working on Buckaroo, a table UI for dataframes that runs in jupyter notebooks. It's much more TraderUI, with sparkline size histograms, and decent baked in formatting for numeric columns. https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo
  • RyanHamilton 2y ago
    Great work. Buckaroo looks very slick.
  • dheera 2y ago
    Chinese end user UIs tend to all be high-density per local user preference. Take a look at any of the mini-apps on WeChat or AliPay or pretty much any Chinese local app. Almost everything is linked within about 1-2 taps of the front page.
  • wildzzz 2y ago
    When it comes to something you're buying, if it's a novel thing, the vendor wants to "chat" because there is no real market price so they are going to try to rob you. But if it's a commodity, the vendor wants to waste as little of your time as possible because they could otherwise lose the sale to any of the dozen other vendors selling the same thing for the same price.
  • czhu12 2y ago
    This is such a nice package, I've been wanting something like this forever. I can't believe how clunky it is to just browse data in a jupyter notebook, given that its entire purpose is for data exploration.
    • paddy_m 2y ago
      Thank you. I'm putting the finishing touches on auto cleaning which integrates with the low code UI. Should be out today
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• dleeftink 2y ago
  I remain appreciative of Native Instruments' original Massive VST [0], which has a good balance of dedicated interaction surfaces and tabbing. More recently, I think the Bitwig DAW has become a great contender for UI clarity and density (its layout is very configurable) [1]. [0]: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synths/massive/ https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/synt... [1]: https://www.bitwig.com/overview/ https://www.bitwig.com/overview/
• jamesfly 2y ago
  I’m making a new version [1] of https://www.physician.fyi https://www.physician.fyi that has this as a key trait since I'm trying to show medical practitioners' complete individual profiles as well as aggregate patterns across practitioners. I took inspiration from https://www.plasticlist.org https://www.plasticlist.org. I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate the chart(s) and map now, so I'd appreciate any ideas. [1] https://ibb.co/VYQpcz9Z https://ibb.co/VYQpcz9Z
• maxglute 2y ago
  One of my hopes for AI is to read my screen and reflow it into a higher density format friendly to screen readers, custom css dialed to 11.
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• STRML 2y ago
  The crypto exchange I built 11 years ago is still pretty dense. New users don't love it, but I do. We set the standard. https://www.bitmex.com/app https://www.bitmex.com/app
  • all2 2y ago
    Looks almost exactly like Kraken's UI.
• eCa 2y ago
  This is probably the most densely packed ui I have ever used[1] to rename photos from their EXIF data. It's not pretty, but I prefer this over a ten step wizard. [1] https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/darkmode.png https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/darkmode....
  • metalliqaz 2y ago
    oh wow, BRU, I had forgotten about that beautiful beast! Here is another utility that I use every day: https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/information/#screenshots https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/information/#screens...
  • all2 2y ago
    Reminds me of finviz's sorting/selection UI for stocks/funds.
• jumploops 2y ago
  For weather data, I'm partial to Wunderground's 10-Day forecast[0] view. In one component you can see temp highs/lows, precipitation, cloud cover, humidity, wind speed, etc. by the hour, for the next week. Full disclosure: I worked on this as a junior engineer, the lead engineer was fantastic. The code hasn't changed in 10+ years. [0]https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco/37.78,-122.42 https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco/37...
  • catgirlinspace 2y ago
    So sad when I remember Wunderground and that it's basically dead now :( I still send PWS data though.
  • arh68 2y ago
    See also: NOAA/NWS hourly chart [1], though it's only a 2-day view. Yours has a much smoother aesthetic, though I could go for either [1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.2705&lon=-71.3035&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=44.2705&lon=-7...
  • KboPAacDA3 2y ago
    This page view is invaluable to me for various reasons. I have been viewing it every day for years. Thank you for your work.
• vintagedave 2y ago
  > Thanks to our past experience with switches, combined with the figure-ground principle, a skeuomorphic design for a toggle switch will make it obvious to a user how to instantly turn on a feature. (Figure-ground is how we perceive three-dimensionality in a 2D space.) This is one of the best arguments for skeuomorphism I've read. It doesn't address the _look_ (ie, brushed metal) but it absolutely addresses the _style_ (looks like a real toggle switch, a real button, etc.)
• andrewkittredge 2y ago
  [dead]
• RickS 2y ago
  Another vote for ableton. Also After Effects. Comparing legacy vs new (rush, etc) Adobe video editing UI is a good way to see both of these dynamics in action. I used to work on the UI kits for Adobe. We supported multiple densities for this reason. Something you'll find in both ableton and after effects are smart, adaptable panel abstractions/conventions. Both have fairly rigid application frames and large distinct sections where discrete types of work happen. But they also have panels where things can get nearly to a free for all. Think custom video effect controls, or individual midi instruments. There are norms (knobs look and work similarly), but things can get totally custom as well (custom graphs, etc). Lastly, at the very edge (~1% of use cases), there are ways to escape the constraints of UI entirely. AE has a code editor for things like custom wiggle animations. Ableton has M4L (which subsequently supports JS and possibly some C, IIRC). You can get yourself into trouble here in ways you normally couldn't: it's possible to straight up break things. Greedy whitespace nonwithstanding, the most pernicious modern UI trend you'll need to buck is the idea that your UI should be simple because it is for simple people. Sometime UI is cluttered because of sloppy design or bad abstractions. Sometimes UI is cluttered because it's meant to empower people who think and care about multiple things simultaneously. Modern UI trends will tell you not to serve a man a steak because a baby can't chew it. Serve steak, babies be damned. I guess that was mostly about functionality, and only adjacent to density. For actual density: vintage (2016ish?) 538 tables, vintage (pre 2010?) stockkeeping and cashier UI. These are basically TUIs with just a hair more polish. * Much less text heirarchy. This means even line heights, which means easy dense grid layouts. Achieve contrast with boldness rather than size, side borders, inverted backgrounds, etc. * The opposite extreme: very big items for very big tasks. Wide touch areas for each food item that a server can rapidfire tap through, everything else tucked to the side. * Thoughtful truncation: grid layouts often ask that things overflow. Do they elipsis at the end? Do they drop the middle? Do they condense 3 pieces of information into 3 smaller pieces of information? Etc. * Prefer text to icons for all buttons, menus, etc. A tab menu of just text is easy to parse. Icons add noise, and non-text buttons force users to speculate instead of read. * Intentionally non-responsive panels. Having fixed sizes for sidebars, panels, etc makes it easier to reason about how subcomponents snap to grid, and greatly shrinks the workload created by having to allow for fluid item reflow.
• sitkack 2y ago
  https://dblp.org/pers?prefix=F https://dblp.org/pers?prefix=F https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?genre=Electronic https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?genre=Electronic https://media.ccc.de/c/38c3 https://media.ccc.de/c/38c3
• boznz 2y ago
  Winamp
• beau_g 2y ago
  Late to the party, but no mention of Winamp? My all time favorite UI, masterwork in maximizing utility for it's size
  • xeonmc 2y ago
    Also Foobar2000
• heraldgeezer 2y ago
  Simply look into your past... I have adhd searched for an image I have save of Classic Windows XP theme with cmd windows and old Firefox with old unknown web ui. Peak. But cant find it. *Edit - I found it This is the peak UI - LOOK. Just everything. Windows XP? with classic theme and some multi workspace swicther in the corner. Small icons, no combine taskbar. SSH/console. Classic Firefox. Unknown encoder web UI "BEAST". DENSE. https://i.imgur.com/Sdy3Z5o.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/Sdy3Z5o.jpeg This is also a collection https://imgur.com/a/gvnf8jf https://imgur.com/a/gvnf8jf Adding Wireshark https://i.imgur.com/VLSspTw.png https://i.imgur.com/VLSspTw.png Adding Qbittorrent https://preview.redd.it/0yukk4ligh5a1.jpg?width=1907&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baddabacad1b99e7a2358c0405458f336b2cf5d6 https://preview.redd.it/0yukk4ligh5a1.jpg?width=1907&format=...
• shpingbing 2y ago
  dmbalmanac.com very old and not optimized for modern screens, but the density always was impressive to me
• malkia 2y ago
  Game tools, and in-game dev menus tend to be high-information density too.
• delamri 2y ago
  Very dense - https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/
• yzmtf2008 2y ago
  Garmin's GI-275: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/719027 https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/719027 This one 3-1/8" inch instrument displays more than 15 pieces of information, is somehow perfectly legible even in turbulent flight, _and_ is more reliable and accurate than a whole 6-pack[1]. Synthetic vision unlock is only $500. This is all without switching different pages. Get two of them, and the FAA considers the possiblities of both of them failing at the same time so low, that you can cover one of them to satisfy partial panel failures in a checkride - well, all you do is to switch the "working" one to the PFD page, and you haven't really lost any capabilities! [1]: https://pilotinstitute.com/six-pack-instruments/ https://pilotinstitute.com/six-pack-instruments/
  • deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
  • antonkar 2y ago
    Yes, it’s great. The densest UI is a direct democratic simulated multiverse: imagine a long exposure photo as a 3D scene, in which you can walk or fly. “Point and scroll the mouse wheel” to focus on a particular moment of time, make it crisp, or “scroll back” to see billions of years of time as a hazy long exposure scene. Example: 14 bln years of our planet look like a hazy ocean (our planet was a water-world most of the time), with the Sun arcs static in the bright sky.
• drinkzima 2y ago
  I think the home buying sites do a decent job here for both search and drill down. Redfin search: https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/94110 https://www.redfin.com/zipcode/94110 Redfin listing: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/3000-3006-26th-St-94110/home/193405573 https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/3000-3006-26th-St-94...
• mvieira38 2y ago
  An observation from the article: I hate the Bloomberg terminal design so much. It's impossible to read if you haven't spent 10+ hours a day looking at it for the past decade
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• throwaway_x031 2y ago
  This webshop is legendary and haven't changed much since the 90s. https://arngren.net/ https://arngren.net/ It's extremely dense, but not very good
• CodeIsTheEnd 2y ago
  I initially built https://plaintextsports.com https://plaintextsports.com because I was annoyed with how slowly other sports websites loaded, but since then I have come to appreciate it more for the density of the information, and how few clicks it takes to get to the info you care about (usually at most two or three).
• julik 2y ago
  Anthony is building MarketMonkey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYLx1RtvAU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYLx1RtvAU Autodesk Flame is a great example of fixed-layout high-density UI - (look for tutorial videos and screenshots). Maya, Houdini - most apps from the high-end VFX space.
• mbo 2y ago
  Rate Your Music has a famously divisive UI which would send the userbase into open revolt if ever changed. Primary examples: An artist page: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stereolab https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stereolab An album page: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stereolab/dots-and-loops/ https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/stereolab/dots-and-l... I personally adore it - RYM is permanently open on my 3rd monitor throughout the work day as I churn through new music.
  • jfvinueza 2y ago
    registered in 2007 my favorite place in the internet
• jbredeche 2y ago
  Bloomberg
• foobarbecue 2y ago
  I'm a rover driver / arm operator for Curiosity and we have several excellent tools that fit your description here at JPL. Chief among them, in my opinion, is RSVP Hyperdrive. See the 5th screenshot on https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/applications/user-interfaces/ https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/applications/us... . I'm also a developer on RSVP and have contributed bug fixes and features to Hyperdrive. I'm hopeful we can open-source it someday. (This is my opinion, not JPL or Caltech or NASA's opinion)
  • nlh 2y ago
    This is incredibly cool -- thank you for sharing!
    • foobarbecue 2y ago
      You know, I just took another look at that screenshot and realized it's from a 2012 build. We have added input and output constantly since then... so it's a lot more information dense now lol... probably twice as much "stuff" on screen. I guess it could be considered cluttered now, but I'll take that any day over programs with poor feature discoverability.
      • sethlivingston 2y ago
        We'd love to see updated screenshots if that's possible!
        • foobarbecue 1y ago
          RSVP team members made a great video last November but looks like it never got publicly released. I will check on this on Monday. In the meantime, here's a more recent paper: https://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/media/documents/IEEE_AERO_2023_RO_final_230110.pdf https://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/media/documents/IEEE_AERO_2023... screenshots in there are focused on the newer "add-on" tools to RSVP -- not enough Hyperdrive for my taste!
        • foobarbecue 1y ago
• tintor 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com
  • insin 2y ago
    Literally usable
• Eduard 2y ago
  https://esphome.io/components/ https://esphome.io/components/ https://www.discogs.com/release/26194-Prodigy-The-Fat-Of-The-Land https://www.discogs.com/release/26194-Prodigy-The-Fat-Of-The...
• EasyMark 2y ago
  rockauto, it's not pretty but once you get the UI it's pretty nice.
• socalgal2 2y ago
  I don't know if any of these are good, but there are 100s (1000s?) of examples of high density UIs here https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues?q=label%3Agallery https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues?q=label%3Agallery So you don't have to dig, 3 examples https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6f62b5ca8579543a1f59eceed0b99d54a1b5d3ee213d16555925f2d5133b5327/687474703a2f2f7777772e67656172646f6d652e636f6d2f66696c65732f6765617267726166782f6765617267726166785f64656275675f30322e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6f62b5ca8579543a1f59eceed... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/411317625-708c88a1-eb7a-433a-8500-210090ead42d.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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.BGs11L4BU1NOZ4QWiJ5kblR_dLl31faxXw3XeJKqToM https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/13691253/4... https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/437368160-bad2dea1-1c79-4c08-96fe-2f7b80fcea14.png?jwt=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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._Cn0w5wRb0Jz3N4MXMamkFqPrzT8jHGmeeNQrfLwqkQ https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/14961870/4...
  • aeve890 2y ago
    Links 3rd and 4th don't work. Also, the second one, holy shit it has to be the densest imgui UI I've seen.
    • socalgal2 2y ago
• milquen 2y ago
  Ham radio is rife with information dense UIs, some good, many not so good. Most software is designed for power users and there is an expectation that new users will read the manual. e.g. WSJT-X, VOACAP: https://www.voacap.com/hf/ https://www.voacap.com/hf/ I made this UI for realtime ham radio signal spotting a couple of years ago, which was an interesting challenge in that regard: https://ft8.live https://ft8.live I used Ant Design and Deck.gl for this which are both quite good for building dense UIs and data visualisation platforms
• mehh 2y ago
  I’d be interested in opinions on how y’all think the density of my site is https://ont.fyi/entity/Q6109517 https://ont.fyi/entity/Q6109517
• adi_kurian 2y ago
  retrieve.tools
• fraggleysun 2y ago
  Finviz
• naikrovek 2y ago
  Ask any advertising person what the path to El Dorado is and they’ll show you mockups of web pages so dense with ads that you can’t even find the content on the page. (If you want information-dense designs, find someone who benefits from them, and ask them.)
• linster 2y ago
  RockAuto
• 6510 2y ago
  The concorde seems nice. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16808/why-was-concordes-cockpit-so-complex https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/16808/why-was-c... imho the UI is the monitor, mouse and keyboard with the later two being the most important. Also of interest here is the amount of conditioning the user enjoyed/suffered. If they cant get their things done elsewhere they will have to learn how to use the proverbial Blender. If the interface gradually got more complicated the long term user wont even notice how crowded it got.
• 6510 2y ago
  The form praised on that article is horrific UI. Makes me want to scream and pull out my hair. That someone created this abomenation is one thing but to praise it is the funniest thing of my day (one should have such things) If you put a form in front of someone with fields like name and address when they are requesting a quote you don't go put "personal info" at the top... in a red font?? If it is important you use a larger font, red is for drama. We have bullshit draining the attention. The same goes for "Address correction", the user is not to stupid to see the form is returned to them. It gets worse from there.... "We could not find the address you entered" If it was an IRL person to person interaction this is all you would say. No screaming or drama required. Some elaboration would be nice. If you do that properly there is no need to vaguely talk about the address in general. "Entered street name was not found" Imagine that, ask yourself, would it be useful to also say you couldn't find the address? But we have stuff between those two things to further confuse the user. I don't know the situation but if they may continue despite not finding the address you should probably just accept the address. It gets even worse from here... We've told them we cant find the street name but the house number is also incorrect??? wha how? I haven't the slightest what "Directional incorrect" means, maybe and/or works differently in the US. We don't know what St means in a street name? If one may make changes or continue with the address provided. How will the user know his changes are correct? If they want to continue as~is they cant be presented with "Address correction" again. You would need two submit buttons. And finally, the truly most terrible part is that the "errors(?)" are not described above or below the form field they apply to. We get this wall of complicated text where a few lines should have been enough. As this is page 1 out of 8 the odds people will run away from the computer screaming are greatly improved.
• thenthenthen 2y ago
  Have a look into Japanese UI design (https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/common-elements-in-japanese-web-design-93cdec731dde https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/common-elements-in-japane... ) In addition practically every Chinese app is extremely dense, look at Taobao, Meituan Waimai, Eleme, Alipay, Xianyu
• dusted 2y ago
  My personal favorites: * Deluge Torrent Client * Gimp before they changed the toolbox icons * InkScape * Blender * Bless (Merge tool) * htop
• notjulianjaynes 2y ago
  There's some annoying parts to using it, but the query tool for the Air Force Civil Engineering Center's CERCLA records database is otherwise good and information dense, IMO. https://ar.cce.af.mil/ https://ar.cce.af.mil/
• iyeaton 2y ago
  I find the imgui UIs to be very high density (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy. It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.
• deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
• faxmeyourcode 2y ago
  Rock Auto has a fantastic to use website. It uses a very intuitive tree based representation and has search that actually works. It also shows you if a part is going to be shipped from the same warehouse as another part in your cart so you can save on shipping. rockauto.com
• pricepergig 2y ago
  Colourful and dense. Https://pricepergig.com/
• pricepergig 2y ago
  Dense and colourful! Https://pricepergig.com/
• roeles 2y ago
  I'd nominate modern fighter cockpits, such as: - Saab Gripen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVIMD3DA7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVIMD3DA7I - F-35 JSF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vCjQ8fCb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vCjQ8fCb0
• huem0n 2y ago
  FoxGlove UI's https://foxglove.dev/examples https://foxglove.dev/examples Those demos run at 60fps (interactive) in the browser, but they recently started requiring google login to view them which is a shame.
• mvsingh 2y ago
  Hello! try checking Nextbunny- https://next.appsbunny.com/ https://next.appsbunny.com/
• Sysiphus6 2y ago
  [dead]
• Lizhang1 2y ago
  [dead]
• redditor98654 2y ago
  I know this does not answer the question for non-Amazon folks but the internal Amazon metrics portal UI is so functional and dense that it was a joy to use. If someone from AWS Cloudwatch is seeing this, this is a plea to make cloudwatch equally functional and feature rich.
• bhag2066 1y ago
  https://diskprices.com/ https://diskprices.com/
• nickevante 1y ago
  Without a doubt the best information dense UI is IBKR Mobile App from Interactive Brokers. Kudos to the IBKR Mobile team for out-competing all other brokerages out there.