89wc
10mo ago
There's your avatar for one, coffee isn't a widespread given in the way that temperature, sustenance, and movement is/was. Arguably any drug (in this case medicine) would fall into this category, as well as anything that wasn't universal to our ancestors. But if "time-efficient" is considered, which would trace back, then there really isn't anything aside from more opportunity for a happier life. But even so, this would arguably fall into "better for human health" which also connects back and doesn't count.
I was trying to convince some devs at an up-and-coming twitter-esque platform to do away with whitespace and their only argument was that people viewing on a wider screen don't want an entire sentence to span across horizontally. So they kept their design, where on even a regular desktop 50% of the website is white space.
I countered with the fact that no one needs to maximize their browser to fill the entire width of their monitor.. and alternatively they can just as easily zoom in.
It seems as though, either for monetary reasons tied to continued engagement, or possibly genuine preference from enough people, the extra-white-space design is here to stay for a bit longer.
If it wasn't obvious I'm not a fan of it. But for a website that is following the numbers, we can see that extra whitespace is beyond an experimental stage as the style has been, and continues to be, adopted by many websites.
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