Comments on: Don’t play Tetris with your web layouts! http://uitrends.com/2009/11/16/dont-play-tetris-with-your-web-layouts/ A place to catalog, discuss, and rate trends in user interface design Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-beta By: Russell Wilson http://uitrends.com/2009/11/16/dont-play-tetris-with-your-web-layouts/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Russell Wilson Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:31:30 +0000 http://uitrends.com/?p=1335#comment-481 @Chris - yes, thanks for catching that. I corrected it. @Chris – yes, thanks for catching that. I corrected it.

]]> By: Chris http://uitrends.com/2009/11/16/dont-play-tetris-with-your-web-layouts/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Chris Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:34 +0000 http://uitrends.com/?p=1335#comment-480 Quote: "And we should sacrifice simple usable layout for the sake of packing things as close together as we can." Huh? Is the 'should' supposed to be shouldn't? Quote:

“And we should sacrifice simple usable layout for the sake of packing things as close together as we can.”

Huh? Is the ‘should’ supposed to be shouldn’t?

]]> By: Russell Wilson http://uitrends.com/2009/11/16/dont-play-tetris-with-your-web-layouts/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Russell Wilson Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:41:53 +0000 http://uitrends.com/?p=1335#comment-470 @Austin - that's certainly possible and I've done it many times before. BUT my point is that we need to think of the logical order before we worry about fitting things as tightly as possible. And we shouldn't sacrifice simple usable layout for the sake of packing things as close together as we can. Thx! Russ @Austin – that’s certainly possible and I’ve done it many times before. BUT my point is that we need to think of the logical order before we worry about fitting things as tightly as possible. And we shouldn’t sacrifice simple usable layout for the sake of packing things as close together as we can. Thx! Russ

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]]> By: Austin http://uitrends.com/2009/11/16/dont-play-tetris-with-your-web-layouts/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Austin Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:40:03 +0000 http://uitrends.com/?p=1335#comment-465 What if you could have the geometric fit but the steps went in order? Also, the link to tetris.com caused me to waste quite a bit of time playing tetris. ;) What if you could have the geometric fit but the steps went in order?

Also, the link to tetris.com caused me to waste quite a bit of time playing tetris. ;)

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