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From a UI/UX perspective: "TL;DR" improves scannability. As a reader, prefacing that first line/paragraph with "TL;DR" means that all I'll have to read is just
by richforrester 14y ago
From a UI/UX perspective: "TL;DR" improves scannability.
As a reader, prefacing that first line/paragraph with "TL;DR" means that all I'll have to read is just that part. This is useful because not everyone uses their first paragraph or sentence to outline the general idea of the article. For example, there might be an anecdote, or a quote, or whatever else to start the article.
- fusiongyro 14y agoIt's pretty poor UI/UX compared to what we used to use: long subtitles and abstracts set out in separate fonts at the beginning of documents. It's an improvement on a wall of text, but it's not an improvement on traditional writing styles so much as an improvement on slightly older internet writing styles.