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As others have noted the widespread adoption of this style has probably little to do with Pinterest but more with masonry, the JS library that makes this easy t
by Udo 14y ago
As others have noted the widespread adoption of this style has probably little to do with Pinterest but more with masonry, the JS library that makes this easy to implement.
I'll be the contrarian here and say these kinds of layouts work better for me because they make much better use of my screen real estate on any device. I think this works well for social networking-type applications where you're skimming through a message stream anyway, or for shopping sites (such as Ikea) where items jump out at you because the human visual system is very fast at image filtering.
So I like it. Maybe tiling style layout in general is overused, but I'd rather see that than any more of those fixed-width column things even where content doesn't necessarily have to be linear.
- geoffw8 14y agoI'm glad you've mentioned Masonry. Literally just yesterday evening we tried something new with an app that we'd been working on for a good while now, instead of having standard sized items in a Twitter like (top to bottom) timeline we thought we'd lay the items out left to right - this meant we had variable height divs divs stacked row by row - and we have thousands of them. The fact that they are variable height puts you in a tricky position because it throws the rows off totally. Stacking them using Masonry was something that happened out of evolution, not by a "lets make it look like Pinterest" mentality. While plenty of people will be cloning the UI of Pinterest because of its successes you can't write it off as a solution to a problem. I'll know by the end of next week if it was worth it!