Thread:Talk:Flow Portal/Flow is too tall/reply (6)

I think the Prototypes, just like the earlier static-mockup-illustrations, are more for demonstrating the concepts and features and possibilities, rather than for the aesthetics. Software devs tend to make clear and simple models initially, and leave the aesthetic-fine-tuning until later...

Also, CSS means we could potentially have a newcomer-friendly version, with oodles of whitespace and big friendly buttons; versus a compact-power-user-version with dense-as-current-layout (or like reddit, etc) with additional links and features that would overwhelm newcomers (or non-geeks).

UI always has to tread the balance between too-simple and overwhelming-options. (E.g. Firefox's options menu, versus its [about:config]) But web UI has more flexibility...