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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.
Also, related: round userpics, which waste space. Cut corners aren't filled with any content. (could be buttons or indicators, at least) I abhor modern design. We probably would have much better designs if we had small screens like in past.
Maybe a part of problem is companies want to increase women representation, and women prefer doing design/UI/UX so users have to view needless frequent redesigns.
I'm going to defend this a little bit, too. If a profile picture is designed to show one's face, having it be a circle makes sense since that's how faces are generally shaped. With a square box, you're also showing your shoulders in the picture and it's a little more awkward to get the picture framed just right.
Of course, that's assuming you'd prefer to share your face and use your real name, something generally more conducive to the goals of female users than their male counterparts. It is absolutely more inconvenient to have to fit a more generic square picture into a round hole.
If user wants circle, they can replace corners of their userpic with white/gray/whatever. This is always available. But users wishing for square are denied choice by designers. Sometimes website forcefully changes existing square userpic to circle, and the pictures were never framed for circle.
Human faces are more oval than round. Ovals were pretty popular in 19th century (also, it saves expensive silver in mirrors and pictures). I remember oval photos of my classmates in pre-internet time. Handsome male faces look more like rectangle than oval gigachad.jpg
even if it, what is the problem here? Why showing Adam's apple is good but shoulders are a no-no?
AFAIK none of smartphones/cameras have circular frames for shooting pictures for a circular userpic.
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