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The Negative Impact of Content Dispersion 2023 Oct 27
I'm a long-time fan of Jakob Nielsen's thoughts on usability and computers, and here's a new article from his group on the web trend of 'content dispersion,' or making websites with low information density. That is obviously not the ethos I used when designing this personal website, instead opting for the complete opposite. But it's fascinating to read some of the implications of pages designed at either end of the spectrum, spelling out the psychological consequences of there being more or less information on screen at any one time.
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