- What is high information density?
- What is low information density?
- What is informational density?
- What is density in UX?
What is high information density?
Information density is the amount of information in the form of content that a site visitor is greeted with as soon as he lands on a website or webpage. The greater the information density, the greater the amount of content a visitor will see on the site or page.
What is low information density?
Low density information tends to highlight an important point. High density information communicates information more efficiently, as long as it's readable. Medium information density similar to the formatting of a typical novel is comfortable and encourages users to read.
What is informational density?
“Information density” is the amount of information you have in a given space. Jakob Nielsen recently commented of websites that while screen sizes have increased, information density has decreased. We have more space to use but given the current trend in minimalistic design we are putting less information on the page.
What is density in UX?
Information density driven UX gives designers and developers a guide to understand the user and the how an interface should be presented to the user. We can categorize user interface types into two groups: Operational. Informational.