If anything software has TOO MUCH whitespace these days. It seems like with every UI update, everything gets 10% more padding, and I have to scroll more and more to see something that used to fit on one page. I bought a 34" monitor for a reason! Give me information density!!
They also disabled Ctrl-F searching so that I cannot quickly find the payee that I want. Instead, I have scroll up to the top of the page to use their tiny little search box, which causes a server request and a redraw of the list, which adds latency and friction to the whole process.
Their old design may have been less pretty and slick, but it was far more usable and efficient.
They then "modernised" it. The whole thing is a JavaScript nightmare, with only one static page, over-ridden OS shortcuts and a very confused browser autocomplete -- oh, and a ton of tracking tags. A grease monkey script and uBlock bring it back to useable, but I'm still silently shopping for new banks entirely because of how utterly ridiculous and user hostile it is.
Indeed. Imagine an architect or a chip engineer or someone using some audio tool or a trader or someone using a spreadsheet working on a phone with "lost of white space" in the UI.
I understand that people reading tweets and watching TikTok videos may like "lots of whitespace" but anybody doing real work need information density.