Minimalist UI Whitespace Critique
Comments criticize modern web and UI designs for excessive whitespace, low information density, and prioritizing aesthetics over usability and readability. Debates contrast dense, efficient layouts with trendy minimalism that hinders user experience on various devices.
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can we have a version where the 'design' doesn’t get in the way of the information?
The benefits of keeping as much info above the fold has been debunked time and time again. These two sites you linked are unnecessarily cluttered and take time for the user to absorb. They look like they were designed in 2002.
Prioritising how good the screenshots look on lists of "top 10 examples of minimalistic design" over usefulness to the user.
I find it incredibly cluttered. Seems like the push for vertical page space has lead to crunching everything together into 2 lines while ignoring usability.
Design looks great, but makes everything tedious to read. Just show me information in a way which is pleasant to look at. Don't hit me over the head with your design. I get it, it is slick, but design should be enabling, not distracting.
and it optimizes for looking pretty in screenshots rather than information density and looking cluttered
Loss of affordance, density and contrast. Why do designers hate these 3 things? It's pretty, yes.
Efficiency for whom? This works great for me. You'd make my experience awful by making things bigger, reducing information density.
Please take a look at the homepage on an iPhone. Way too much whitespace IMO and not obvious what’s going on in places
Here is a design tip for you: don't take up my screen space with useless shit I can't scroll away from