Of course you can have rich and highly functional design, as well as very functional, minimalist barebone design. It's always harder to come up with a design t

Of course you can have rich and highly functional design, as well as very functional, minimalist barebone design. It's always harder to come up with a design that's simultaneously pleasing and feels easy to use, but throwing design out of the window altogether is nothing but a copout. It's the easiest thing to do, but is it a solution, or just an attempt to make some sort of a point? To me it's the equivalent of shaky camera and black-and-white filming: every film student's act of rebellion against James Cameron and the like ; )