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You're right - there was no good examples of great UI design here - I was just saying that the ugly Hacker News interface performed its function better than the beautiful newspond one.

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My point is that while newspond is beautiful, I feel there are too many graphical elements used in the layout.

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Good post. you make valid points but I think your example of newspond is not the best one.

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If you let the UI take over, if it's no longer transparent and in the background, then it will dominate content and in turn would be too distracting to use. newspond.

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Tor: Both sites have the same function - the only difference is Hacker News sorts stories by voting and newspond using an algorithm.

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If newspond had the summary content loading dynamically and at the users request then i'm sure it would do a much better job of satisfying it's users.

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Google would not have gotten to where it is today if it looked like newspond.

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I think newspond is done good, there are a few things I would change but not quite the example I think you should use.

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Imagine if Google looked like newspond - would you still use it?

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While I can only see a couple of news stories on my screen on newspond, on Hacker News I can see about twenty.

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