I’m so tired of neck beards assuming that any spacing in a design is a waste, as if a good design packs every milimeter with stuff. Proper application of negative space is common in art and throughout design.

You are among the first people I’ve seen online who hasn’t circlejerked about any level padding/spacing being too much padding.

People on Reddit/Lemmy always talk about how unusably shit any modern design is, and how UX/UI from 20+ years ago was so much better.

Yet do they use ancient copies of the software that broadly still performs the tasks people need of them? No.

Do they theme their system to look like the oh-so-superior Win98? No.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I see a design change I dislike. But as a general rule, UI has definitely got better over the years.

I look at 20 year old Linux DE screenshots, and they look bad. Cluttered, inconsistent, ugly. I look at them now and they look beautiful. Nostalgia goggles are a powerful thing.

Laptop screens are no useless; I need my 27” monitor to fit the useable workspace that a laptop screen once had