Like the take that we need to authentificate more often nowadays. AWS makes it extreme — it resets login each 12 hours I reckon, and each time I need to click like 10 times, touch the fingerprint button 3 times (fill email, fill password, passkey), and I fail to imagine how it's not a security theater.
Thanks for the information hierarchy / conceptual boundaries distinction, makes sense. I didn't know the latter term but tried to describe it in the last section of the post, nice to have a name now.
There are apps and sites that manage to keep the number of cards at min, one is selfridges (not an ad, was just open in another tab), another is firefox settings. MacOS Finder does a good job at grouping things with spacing, and macos generally. iOS seems to put everything on cards, at least nowadays.
hm, I sort of agree with the train of thoughts but not with the conclusion. Maybe it's "is my blue your blue" situation. I talked to people while working on this post and some said e.g. grid with cards is way easier to them to scan through than grid without cards; other people feel the opposite and complain about too many things on the page that are not content. I'm in the latter category, but wondering if I could make an experiment, or if anyone made it already.
author here (not super educated either). That's part of the idea — when cards are removed it becomes obvious that tags become the most noticeable part while not being the most (or any) important one. When you look at the cards you see cards and _something_ inside them.
So maybe if this post was in less flame-provoking tone I'd suggest trying to add cards back and see if it makes it better. It might, on landings there is a good chance it will.
Unrelated but I have the easiest design improvement for your website: change <html> background color to #4285f4 (same as in topbar) so it looks like a sheet of paper on a blue base
