Re: Minimum Screen Resolution?

16:9 aspect ratio is not really a good screen layout for many tasks. If
naively followed, screen elements such as titles and labels take too much
space because they are stretched horizontally. When I am editing text on
the such screens, I tend to set it up so I have two windows side by side
(and the ribbon minimized!).

A friend of mine recently encountered this problem when they redesigned a
bank account and stock trading interface for a financial institution in
Korea. They had alot of problems with the screen layout at the 16:9 ratio.
He complained that if people want to watch TV, they should just connect
their computers to their flat screens!

I think it is a better idea at that resolution to try to design the screens
to have components that can be shown side by side. Perhaps you could design
2 "panels" that are 7:8 each and display the panels side by side to get a
14:8 ratio?

Han


On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Kayla Block <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I have a thick client app (WPF) and a current minimum resolution
> requirement of 1280x768. It had been at 1280x800 but I found that many
> people were stuck at the 768 vertical.
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> Today, our GM said that he's more concerned about the aspect ratio as
> people are moving towards HD and he doesn't want us to look weird at
> 16:9. Aspect ratio isn't really anything I've previously considered and
> I'm not getting my head wrapped around his concerns. His concern is that
> 768 vertical is even further away from a 16:9 aspect ratio.
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> The existing design has 3 panels that are supposed to act and react in
> particular ways at different resolutions. Our only current issue is that
> we have some clipping at 768 on one screen but again, I'm not seeing how
> aspect ratio factors in.
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> Do you take aspect ratio into consideration in your designs? If so, what
> aspect ratio do you design for?
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> Looking at info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution -
> seems like you can expect computers to have a wide variety of aspect
> ratios.
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> Thoughts?
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