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The way we organize and display information could have a strong impact on how users will retrieve it, including searching display on Google, and how to decide which kind of vegetables should be placed on the top shelves. Nowadays mobile devices have been an essential part of our lives, online app market is expanding, and the rules and the categories are organized and displayed becomes a hot topic since it affects the revenue directly.

Small icons with list and little descriptions let users browse many choices efficiently, while bigger icons and screenshots may be more attractive when someone cares more about the graphic design. That is, the choice of what the developer should design and provide, depends on how others(the app market design) organize the data, which disclose different information to the users. Moreover, even having the same information, it could turns out to have a different consequence to all kinds of users.

The news reveals a rumor(or a possible design) about how Apple may redesign their online app store in a manner of changing the amount of informatio that each page(display size) could display. That is, developers and designers may have to change their approach to increase the attractiveness of the apps.

On the other hand, when a user downloads an app, he or she is simply changing the sequence(rank) in the list, reorganizing the priority, just as how we retrieve any data on the Internet.