#informationdensity

Jens Oliver Meiert 🇺🇳 🇵🇸j9t@mas.to
2026-01-20

I really like how Sentry has been moving to a more dense design; too few services, maybe Google Cloud Console being another example, embrace information density.

For more than a decade, it has felt as if that density was a problem—but as Edward Tufte long said, “Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”

I hope that wherever a lot of information is available, we’ll start to see more of this again.

#design #informationdensity #sentry

Screenshot of a Sentry CSP issue page, packing a reasonable amount of information to assess and manage the respective alert.
Dave in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿_dmh
2023-09-14

Conclusion
- struggle with coherent continuations for relatively simple prompts, beyond the bias
- of the prompt and decoding method impact text quality
- Modifying IC prompts affects capture of IC bias, depending on decoding strategy; however
bias congruence doesn't guarantee higher continuation quality
- Surprisingly low correlation between automatic metrics and human judgments, underscoring
metric challenges and caution in interpretation

Inautiloinautilo
2023-06-05


How to adapt long-page designs for better scanning · A way to consolidate information-dense content and engage visitors ilo.im/13d633

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dr 🛠️🛰️📡🎧:blobfoxcomputer:davidr@hachyderm.io
2022-11-27

I think maybe I just hate #podcasts. I want to interact with the material, unmediated by #pseudoconversation. It isn't even just the low #informationdensity, it's also that I'm constantly distracted by #cringe.

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