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Infographics
Raised as a usability problem by 13 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2009–2018), in 12 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Text in infographics is too hard to readUnreviewed
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Text in infographics is too hard to readUnreviewed
20092026- Diagonal lines and tilted text make the infographics hard to read and interpret2012-09-23
- Infographics are more complex than the data they convey, hindering quick comprehension2012-03-14
- Text in the infographic is too hard to read2011-12-05
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Scrolling is imprecise, so the user can't stop on the year they want2018-12-22
- Hide button only appears after clicking an hourglass icon users avoid2017-06-17
- Hijacked scroll speed and custom scrollbar make scrolling wonky, so the reader leaves2016-12-20
- Inconsistent axis direction and colors make the charts hard to interpret2014-07-27
- No obvious way to follow the path; graphic confuses the eye2013-05-15
- Diagonal lines and tilted text make the infographics hard to read and interpret2012-09-23
- Infographics are more complex than the data they convey, hindering quick comprehension2012-03-14
- Text in the infographic is too hard to read2011-12-05
- Cluttered layout makes it impossible to connect manufacturers to the components they supply2011-08-13
- Data is hard to match to labels because it sits far away behind closely spaced lines2011-08-13
- Crowded gray design pushes readers away so they never parse the content2011-02-05
- Hard to extract the data from infographics, worse than simple charts2010-03-26