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I laughed when I read the complaint about the "embarrassing lack of spaces"... Add the generous amount of space any fancy à la page UI needs and try to keep the all the functionality these apps have, you'll need way more than a 4k screen for it to fit the screen.

No, less is not always better.

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> Add the generous amount of space any fancy à la page UI needs and try to keep the all the functionality these apps have, you'll need way more than a 4k screen for it to fit the screen.

Exactly. Reading Tufte's books I learned that if you are aiming for actually useful instead of just pretty, you'll end up with denser information display.

Whitespace is downright inefficient. If I bought a screen with over 2 million pixels in it, any one of those not serving information or functional elements is wasted electricity.

If I wanted whitespace, I'd get a 800x600 screen from the 90s, and create a border around it with white paper. Lot more power efficient, same effect.

So you think this is OK? http://cl.ly/image/0a0r1P1m0b2U

I don't think that is quite what the parent was referring to. I think it was more "space" as in "have a clean simple uncluttered UI with ample padding around the edges" (see point 3 here: https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeo...) not literally a lack of   spaces between elements.

I mean exactly that in the article. Spaces between forms and labels.

Ah sorry, I take that back then

I obviously meant general page whitespace; but you are right, the particular sentence I quoted was referring to the screenshot you posted, in which there is gratuitous (and horrific) lack of space.

I still think that my comment is appropriate for the general stance of the article, but the downvotes were undeserved (I upvoted you, for that matter)

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