Cards vs lists. Their influence on user experience

he most common ways to organize web content today are cards and lists. Each of them has its pros and cons. If lists were used for this purpose for a long time (starting from the first days of the Web development), then the card design style only recently began to be trusted by web developers, gaining enormous momentum in popularity recently. Cards and lists are unique ways to display content that can be perfect in one situation and spoil everything in another. The key point here is the ability of the web designer to determine the face that separates the use of each of the methods, thereby achieving the maximum level of user convenience. The criteria that should be followed during the selection process may surprise you and make you revise some previously known principles of web design. In this article we will define cases when the use of cards in web design will be more preferable than lists and vice versa. What are the cards and lists? In order to understand in which situation the cards should be used, and in which lists, one must first of all decide what each of them represents separately and what function it performs (or should perform). Continue reading →