Minimum Screen Resolution?

Hanhwe Kim

2012-04-12 15:38:41 UTC

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

Post by Kayla Block
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.
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.
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.
Do you take aspect ratio into consideration in your designs? If so, what
aspect ratio do you design for?
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.
Thoughts?
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