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Chinese web design isn’t cluttered, the current web design trend in the “west” is a very stupid and bad obsessive pursuit of minimalism. Craigslist looks just like all these “cluttered” Chinese sites.
I honestly prefer the “clutter”. I tend to do well with lots of dense information, and having more information available to me to process helps me make better decisions and find the info I am looking for.
i think we’re returning to clutter but our clutter is like AI summaries of everything. in fact i was searching for something yesterday and clicked on a reddit result and google gave me an ai summary of the conversation so i had to click it a second time to actually go through to the site.
Over the years I grow to despise the “minimalism” design trend. I want my computer to be like a newspaper, not a coffee table book. While not throwing accessibility out.
The main thing with “cluttered” interfaces is whether they are designed to work within limits of band with, processing power, screen size etc. If the clutter is being sourced from 25 different JavaScripts chit chatting with various servers about what they’re going to do, and everywhere you mouse moved it requests 5 new webpages to show up on top of the content, then that sucks. But if the available info is squished together on one or 2 displays that is useful.
One thing I don’t need is a bunch of “whitespace” forced on me. If my eyes need a rest I can look at the wall.
