We are redesigning the Primal phone feed. One of our goals is to optimize for information density. The current design is probably too sparse. Here are some concepts we are throwing around. Thoughts?
Revamp B for everything except the font-size and line-height. I love the readability of the current font-size and line-height.
Don't like the container for D or the tiny avatars in C.
Indeed in the "current" version the line height is too tall.
I would offer a preference:
* Standard (A), but increasing the font-size ~20%
* Compact (C)
This way you also please those who want a slightly larger font.
The D is a good alternative to C but the space really saved is strongly related to the presence of images, and the left empty space is not so useful.
C because of the profile pics being smaller (they contain less info and can be recognized at a glance). Content itself still has the full width π.
Lineheight is a bit off though and the margins/passings are not consistent yet.
Let me pick between A, C and D but adjust the font size to my liking.
This is coming from a visually impaired guy constantly using screen magnification: The ability to adjust font sizes is an insane help as we can now match how far we scroll our magnifier versus how much information we can guess from a glance without.
On Element on my Android phone, I have a much bigger font size, so I can skim messages for words by their optic. If I am interested, I can zoom in with the screen magnifier and read. Since the font is bigger, I don't have to zoom in far to read it well, but still have enough density that I have to move the view a little.
I wouldn't neccessarily call this an "accessibility killer feature", but definitively something I would absolutely want.
Thanks for reading!