Info-density on the new Twitter feed design is yikes: just three tweets in a huge 1400pt vertical window.
(I use a third-party client for all except the timeline, but I actually quite like the algorithmic timeline!)
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You can only read one tweet at a time though and there's little to no coherence between tweets in the feed, so I think it's not a big problem (if you don't mind scrolling a lot). 😂
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That's not really how I use Twitter. If you were to eye-track me, you'd see an aggressive skimming action, jumping mostly to profile pictures and key words in tweets to decide which to read.
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I see, I guess, in that case it makes sense.
For me it's fine because I would opt for readability instead of overview but I definitely get your point.
Overall screen real estate use of the Twitter UI is bonkers (e. g. space used for trending hash tags).
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How do you guys skim thought this? I see even less tweets on mobile due to huge media (lovely for art) but the amount of subtle font sizes with no clear hierarchy in some cases is insane.
the new design also breaks scanability in discerning between UGC and ads
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this is exactly what I think so much UI design gets wrong - skimming maximalism >>
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I don't think we've seen a computer interface that truly leverages how fast humans can recognize+associate images.
Even thumbing through a PDF with lots of figures is sheer virtuosity compared to a text-only one. For any task.
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