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Comment by rw2

10 hours ago

I am sure it's very performant, but to me it's extremely ugly; Surely someone can fix margins and still have it be performant.

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pgwhalen  9 hours ago

I’m no UI expert - what’s wrong with the margins?

  • LooseEquipment  9 hours ago

    inconsistent and maybe too tight, but I would think those are issues with the sample UIs and not this library

    • OneDeuxTriSeiGo  8 hours ago

      FWIW if you listen to Signals and Threads (the Jane Street podcast) they talk about this.

      They have dedicated UX designers who do relatively little code but focus entirely on making the UX as optimal for the traders as possible and one of them was on an episode.

      They talked about how most of the normal UX rules for SW go out the window because quants and traders have such different needs than "normal software".

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    • pgwhalen  9 hours ago

      From experience I can say that traders prefer extraordinarily little whitespace in their UIs.

    • kfse  3 hours ago

      A lot is said in this thread about user preferences for info density, but it is really a lot more than preference. there's also a big component of it that is user productivity focused. Info-dense UIs simply require a lot less scrolling around and pagination to look at relevant data. For example the ability to look at multiple charts side by side instead of having to scroll one chart after another into position enables users to spot differences that they wouldn't otherwise see.

    • troupo  8 hours ago

      I'd kill for tight UIs now. Everything insists on having 15000-mile wide margins, and at most two items visible on an 8K screen.

      We are at a point when TUIs from 1990s running in 12" screens with at best a 480x240 resolution display more info than almost anything we have now.

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