|
|
|
|
|
|
by RudyStone
833 days ago
|
|
|
The cards in two columns actually make it harder to scan. Kind of reminds me of this (not identical, but I think similar) problem. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/zigzag-page-layout/. For one, one can't be certain of order (two columns ordered top to bottom, each, or left right, left right and so on?). But also, just scanability of headlines is slowed. |
|
|
> It's a website with nice UI...
I don't like dumping on earnest Show HNs, but I have such a strong reaction to sites that just think "oh, it just needs a rebrand to a 'modern' UI". Look, lots of unnecessary whitespace! Borders with rounded corners! And all this ends up doing is making the site much less usable (much harder to scan headlines as you point out) for some abstract notion of "prettiness".
Folks should understand that HN's simplicity and information density is a feature, not a big. I've seen lots of sites ruin themselves (cough cough Slashdot cough...) for the sake of some unnecessary redesign.