Information density has decreased even as screens have gotten bigger and LCDs have higher and higher resolutions.
I dont know why designers feel the need to use such large margins, padding and whitespace everywhere.
Right, and here's an especially egregious example: https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/mutual-fun...
When viewed on a laptop, there is so little information visible (without scrolling) that you might as well be viewing the page on a phone.
Then open a TUI browser like Lynx and go to the same page. Now look at how much text there really was. Usually it will be about a page or so without the need to scroll at all.
Doing this opened my eyes to just how monumentally bad modern web design has gotten at conveying information.
> I dont know why designers feel the need to use such large margins, padding and whitespace everywhere.
All I know is that usability keeps getting worse as time goes on. Where is the floor?
You could try to cram it into an Apple Watch?
Mobile design isn't just a response to the limitations of its hardware; as technologies become more prevalent, intuitiveness to increasingly inexperienced users has to be prioritised over everything else and this is a major trend that dates right back to the beginning of the computer industry.
Usability is much better today than it was in the past; it's just no longer targeted at us.
I hate this trend. This is the largest reason why the reddit redesign sucked (besides the worse performance).