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> This explains exactly why physical restaurant menus are so much better vs mobile site menus.

It also explains why trading UI for pros haven't changed at all compared to these Bloomberg Terminal screenshots.

Sometimes a dense UI is precisely what you need. And the one thing that matters for people trading "manually", clicking on things, is latency: there should be no room for "wait, did the server get my order or not!?".

In a way TFA explains why a restaurant isn't a trading floor.



Dense and functional looking UIs are also prime for any sort of B2B software. It facilitates giving buyers the impression that the software is more functional than something super polished.


To be clear, by super polished I mean that something that looks like a modern consumer app is sometimes discounted.




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