>Monitors are bigger than ever with huge resolutions, and yet UIs are being dumbed down to
>uselessness and alienating an increasing number of users.
This! so much this!
Never have we had so much screen real estate, yet UI designers seem to want to compress the actioanable items into as small a space as possible, with the stated goal of providing as much 'content' space as possible. The result is swathes of pointless unused whitespace, or overly large fonts to fill up the space if anybody uses the app maximized.
Currently on Chrome, the tabs occupy what was once the Title bar (why ??!), same on Office apps where the save and search functions take space on the Title bar. Please, I'm an MDI guy, I hardly ever maximize application, and since the monitor(s) is so large, I like to have an easy to click Title bar to select my focus app, or to move the window somewhere. I've been doing this since the GEM days, and that's how I like it!
I would guess that the designers have nice clean desks as well, so all that whitespace is giving the illusion of cleanliness.
I also imagine that those designers would maximise a window where there would only be a single page in the middle of the screen and whitespace all around.
Looks "nice" from a minimalist standpoint but a complete waste of space otherwise.
This! so much this!
Never have we had so much screen real estate, yet UI designers seem to want to compress the actioanable items into as small a space as possible, with the stated goal of providing as much 'content' space as possible. The result is swathes of pointless unused whitespace, or overly large fonts to fill up the space if anybody uses the app maximized.
Currently on Chrome, the tabs occupy what was once the Title bar (why ??!), same on Office apps where the save and search functions take space on the Title bar. Please, I'm an MDI guy, I hardly ever maximize application, and since the monitor(s) is so large, I like to have an easy to click Title bar to select my focus app, or to move the window somewhere. I've been doing this since the GEM days, and that's how I like it!