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A comment on Ask HN: Minimalistic web design works?.
When something is minimal it's not very useful. It's basically saying "I don't want to look too complex".
On the other hand when something is simple it's because there's and underlying understanding of complexity.
You can read what Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, thinks about this (http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=404).
The work of a designer should be therefore to understand complexity and make it simple.In order to make it simple, the designer should ultimately be the one who decides what to add and what to leave out.
I really suggest this video by Joel Spolsky during BoS 2009 http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/19.html
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When something is minimal it's not very useful. It's basically saying "I don't want to look too complex".
On the other hand when something is simple it's because there's and underlying understanding of complexity.
You can read what Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, thinks about this (http://designthinking.ideo.com/?p=404).
The work of a designer should be therefore to understand complexity and make it simple.In order to make it simple, the designer should ultimately be the one who decides what to add and what to leave out.
I really suggest this video by Joel Spolsky during BoS 2009 http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/19.html