Japanese Internet is designed differently, and so is Chinese Internet and South Korean Internet, and many other Asian countries' Internet. It's dense, cluttered, and information rich.
Why?
The answer lies in cultural psychology. It lies in how culture influences our brain's cognitive processes in perception and attention.
Interesting.
Indeed, I didn't know that the root cause of those web design differences between East Asia and Western World is based in culture!
I was simply assuming those heavy overloaded looking web pages still follow old-school principles and it's just all matter of time until they will be replaced with modern design 😂
Actually this explains why Koreans play StarCraft better.
Internet in Asia is design around SuperApps much like a physical supermarket or supercenter - the user finds value in adjacency, collocation, and chance discovery of products, services, and information in the digital channel.
Whereas in the West, apps are expected to provide some single, discrete service - cleanly, directly, and simply. We become annoyed when apps veer too far out of their perceived lane and we actively work against the commingling of data across different digital services.
