UI Density

Interfaces are becoming less dense than their 2000s counterparts, and UI density is best defined by more than how much appears on screen. Building on Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio, it proposes design density, the share of necessary design decisions relative to all decisions, and temporal density, the amount a user can do in a given time. Bloomberg's Terminal is cited as an example of high temporal density because it loads data almost instantaneously.