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In other tech news, Major Nelson redesigned his site layout today. I don't like this trend in web design.

Posted by Max Jun 11 '15, 13:26

Obviously it was done for mobile, fair enough. But on desktop monitors it's a huge waste of space. Sure it's wide, but the font is huge so you only get to see two articles 'above the fold'. And they all gradient into each other so you have this vague mush.

CNN's recent (last year?) redesign is also way too spaced out. I want information delivery, dammit. Look at ST, it's great, chock full of text on one screen so I can see as much of the discussion as possible and decide where I want to click.

These new sites seem to be taking a dreamy atmosphere/lifestyle experience approach, like some restaurant or cafe with a nice photo of a coffee and croissant. "Don't worry about the specific menu items or prices, just come visit us and you'll find something you like." Give me data, dammit, not style.

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From MASH? -- nm - slipping jimmy Jun 11, 14:23
Google says that they will downgrade you if the site isn't responsive. That's the easiest way to do that. -- nm - spamlet Jun 11, 14:03 3
- What do you mean by responsive? -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 11, 14:09 1
  - Responsive Design is a way of targeting your site to various screen sizes but with the same HTML (rather than having a mobile-specific page). - Beryllium Jun 11, 14:32
- Yep. -- nm - Kim Pine Jun 11, 14:09
Offal. -- nm - 99 LuftBarons Jun 11, 13:43
I have a number of site I check every morning. Seems like every day recently one of them has updated their page and I can't find anything. - Meg Jun 11, 13:35
that top gradient is fug -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 13:30 4
- And the banner section takes up a full third of my screen. If I wanted to steal HSX's scroll code for my own website, would that be easy? -- nm - Max Jun 11, 13:33 1
  - Maybe. Depends on how modularly it is written. -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 13:39
- I was just coming to post similar. ick. -- nm - b. Jun 11, 13:32 1
  - and the infinite scrolling changing the URL is a UX thing I hate -- nm - Beryllium Jun 11, 13:36
link -- (link) - Max Jun 11, 13:27

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