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Comment · 4 years ago
I always thought that Apple ][ + was as good as it gets. It's been downhill from there, for Apple and for the rest of us.
Comment · 4 years ago
I am likely not your typical reader, and have my own issues. But since you have a technical presentation that needs to communicate meaning, it is a shame to obscure it with suboptimal visual design. You may disagree with my minimalist approach, but I would advise keeping a single-column presentation as it would work on any device the same way.

Who is your audience? If you are presenting an engineering concept, for god's sakes, just use plain html. Your goal is to have readable text and enough graphics to communicate. I think you have to decide if you have something to say, or be a really cool groovy genius with wacky text and layout. As a designer I have to tell you that no, it does not look cool.

The slightly-rotated text boxes are disorienting. Unless you are making a 'tech for dummies' book, there is no reason to assault the reader with distracting callouts. It's actually insulting.

I actually prefer dark background, by far. Until we all have E-ink displays, it is much easier on the eye not to have large glowing fields of white.

My immediate disorientation comes from the fact that even with my enormous display I have to scroll down and right. I start with 2 1/2 columns, and don't know what to do.

The layout code you have is buggy, at least in LibreWolf - upon screen resize (which is the immediate urge when seeing 2 1/2 columns) the display goes wacky - a lot of empty space appears in some columns. The vertical layout does not conform to the width - some text runs over boxes.

That is about as far as I get, without reading a single sentence!

Comment · 4 years ago
I have a wide screen and it shows as a bunch of columns that don't fit (there are a lot more on the right), and I have to scroll down for each column. At one point, the boxed text showed a slight rotation, possibly due to vertigo and I closed the site. Resizing the window makes a mess with columns of various height and empty columns.

For readability, you need a lot more space between columns.

Again, this looks like nitpicking, but in reality I am unable to read the content.

It appears you have something interesting to say. Why destroy that with terrible layout?

Comment · 4 years ago
The layout is so disturbing I could not read it, even though it's exactly my cuppa!

Please use a lot more space, especially between columns. Tilting text creates a sense of vertigo, making it really hard to concentrate, for some of us.

Please keep the layout simple, unless it is actually helpful to the content.

Comment · 4 years ago
I wish people here would stop talking about this.
Comment · 4 years ago
See Netflix show 'Into The Night'
Comment · 4 years ago
First and last color (purples) are extremely similar on my monitor.
Comment · 4 years ago
I expected chicken scheme
Comment · 4 years ago
NYPD budget: ~11 Billion

Ukraine military budget: ~6 Billion.

And I still have to dodge motorcycles going the wrong way through red light in bike paths.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Please look up the definition of psychopathy.

I can see that you are impressed by his wealth and title, but I owe this community a voice to balance yours.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'd rate orchestrating a coup in Bolivia and tweeting "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." an act of violence.

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