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Modern trend of too much white space in WWW web page design
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wilfred:

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--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 21, 2021, 06:21:00 am ---I think eBay has a monopoly on a certain group of buyers. They don't like to stray.

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I would love to stray, but what option is there? I've explored a few alternatives but always walked away thoroughly disappointed. Nowhere near the selection of interesting stuff and sky high asking prices on anything that was even remotely interesting. It's a classic chicken & egg problem, none of the competitors have ever hit critical mass.

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Let's also not overlook that Ebay doesn't actually sell the stuff. If sellers put sky-high prices that's their own business. If people buy it then that's too bad for anyone who wouldn't. Someone else could undercut them if they get too greedy. That's a fact of commerce since way before the internet.

Brumby:
White space tells me nothing.

This modern trend causes more work to do things.  I despise it.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: wilfred on April 21, 2021, 05:54:57 am ---
[...] Let's assume Ebay is not actually self destructive and are following the demands of customers.  [...]

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Every product that has ever flopped probably started with the best intentions...   ?

Just because they are not intentionally creating a worse user experience, doesn't mean that they aren't.

Also consider that perhaps this is just one bad manager at eBay, whoever is their head of design, that is driving the influence towards white space after having trekked the deserts in his or her youth, becoming fascinated with the concept of wide open spaces.

There is a balance point, on a web site, between "too busy", "just right", and "too much white space".   The EEVblog forum is a good example of something that is close to "just right", in my view.   Can you imagine the eBay team designing a forum?  Each page on your screen would only contain six lines of text...  Still, someone could come along and say 'they are not actually self destructive', but it doesn't actually change the fact that they got the balance wrong!
YurkshireLad:
I don't think any modern "UI designers" re-design for their users/customers. It's either for what the designers think is best, or what the designers think their users/customers think is best.

Google's UIs are mind boggling. GNOME desktop? Just no. Don't get me started on Windows 10 and other Microsoft applications. And Amazon? Can you not design your website to flow properly?

UI design is easy. GOOD UI design is not. I've stopped assuming designers know what they're doing or that they're designing for their users.  |O

Middle aged man shouts at cloud!  :palm:  ;D
Bud:
It was Jobs who introduced this shenanigans. Jobs loved making presentation slides with just one or three words on the entire gigantic screen. They are still doing this crap. Go to Apple web site and see how much information they put on a given screen. I it is hard to find  a website worse than Apple's. Naturally, everyone else "followed the leader".
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