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How do people feel about white space in web design?
There has been this ongoing trend of massive amounts of white space, where it's basically a single sentence per screen. I find the experience awful on desktop. But only mildly annoying on mobile.
I'm also trying to find professional web design blogs or posts that point out how annoying this trend is. Instead all designers seem to have nothing but nice things to say about white space. Rather than making me think I'm wrong for going against all designers I instead just think the whole profession is wrong.
It's awful. We truly live in a dark (or too bright) time.
Consider New Reddit:
Substack is even worse:
Can anyone familiar with design explain why we can't have stuff like the old slatestarcodex blog back? It worked just fine on mobile. If the text is too small, you just pinch zoom the screen a bit.
This is a website I built, and mostly designed:
https://www.mpsbrettonwoods.org/
My disdain for empty space has probably created the opposite problem of things being too cramped. But the audience is monetary economists. The kind of people that read books, and write books.
A book is nothing but a wall of text and it's a design that has endured for hundreds of years. I think as long as a design isn't more dense than a book then it's fine.
I don't think things are too cramped at all and I would prefer even less white space. I don't even like the big title page that makes you have to scroll down to where the content starts. I would rather have the "It is our pleasure ..." start the top left of the page, with a narrower top banner.
I think Gwern probably one of the best designed websites I've ever seen, though I'd be tempted to reduce the font size a bit.
This is the kind of design I'd argue against:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beck+and+stone&atb=v390-1&ia=web
The throughlink to a search engine is intentional. Please don't direct link.
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