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RE: Steemit.com Updates: Design and Security
Part of the post summary redesign was to create markup that would enable us to create different layout views in the future with simple CSS changes. The truly compressed view for curators was definitely a part of our thinking for this structural change.
Before designing a truly compressed view, I'd love more insights from curators in the community. For example, do you want exactly the same information to be displayed, but more compressed? Is there information in the summary that we could remove without affecting your ability to quickly curate?
For me, current information is necessary, except maybe that brief summary could be shorter, but make everything more compressed with lots of posts in the view, so that I can browse through them more quickly.
We might be able to do without the picture (included with the post) or even the brief summary under the title. The things that absolutely cannot go are the title and poster. I'd say everything else is pretty negotiable, depending on how much more screen real estate is freed compared to what was removed.
Great! Is there any other information that we're not providing that would be useful?
The preview pictures also make steemit.com very bandwidth hungry. Keeping in mind that much of our user base comes from regions where internet data is at a premium, a compressed view that does not display or preload pictures would be very helpful.
Pack more posts within a single view. Reddit is pretty good in that sense. Loving the design update btw @pkattera!
The author's name on trending page and blog needs to return where they were. When reading the trending page, logic wants it that we look at post's title first and then possibly look at the author's name.
The way the author's name are displayed in relation to the post's titles make it appear as if it's the author's name that is being published. Titles are being published not author's name. The intents of authors are being published and transmitted in the post's title first and foremost. This is were the reader's mind should be drawn first and very unequevically. This is where the novelty is and intention are being conveyed.
A lot of what we see is being picked up and process by our brain unconsciously first. The way we design and display things mean something.
Right now the display seems to mean that what is being published are the author's name. When our brain understand it's the titles that are published and we have to make a constant effort to look at the titles first, our brain is constantly telling itself "Don't look at the elephant" so to speak and that's pretty much impossible. Our brain have millions of years of evolution of constant analyzation of what it is faced with. It's been annoying me to the point I instantaneously switch from steemit to stage.steemiz.io when the new design came out.
Also I totally agree with @liberosist post about the number of titles display on a page. And I feel like this need mentioning, I browse Reddit ever day for more than an hour for many years on end now and I almost never look at any author's name.
Reddit is the top 8 most visited website on the internet the most similar website to Steem in the top 20 probably top 100 and not matter what some people think about its designed, it still hasn't prevent it to be as popular as it is. In my opinion Reddit is really well designed, simple yet efficient.
I look forward to sharing with steemit more of my ideas and understanding about how I see things on the subject, pun intended.
That's great to hear! Now that we have your ear, I have made a more detailed post about it here - https://steemit.com/curation/@liberosist/suggestions-for-a-compressed-view
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Great – thanks for taking the time do this! I'll leave my comments your post.