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The problem with this article (other than the usual SM lack of substance) is that almost all the examples are portfolio sites for artists and designers. How ab
by blehn 16y ago
The problem with this article (other than the usual SM lack of substance) is that almost all the examples are portfolio sites for artists and designers. How about showing these principles applied to more complex projects - applications, e-commerce sites, corporate sites, admin systems, etc?
- irondavycole 16y agoThis is the problem with most SM articles and with most web design sites in general. I say this as someone who is featured in this post. Portfolio sites have a perfect reason to be minimal: the work comes first. But that's what you get from an article that takes an aesthetic and works backwards — the exact opposite of a good design process.
- iamdave 16y agoI think at least 80% of the links in this article have been featured on SM before, actually. Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/25/55-minimal-black-and-white-web-designs-to-inspire-you/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/25/55-minimal-black-...
- derefr 16y agoWeb design is basically communications design, on the Internet; it doesn't involve functional aspects (just reading, and finding/clicking links to enable more reading.) When you're designing a web app—industrial design, on the Internet—you're just doing UI design, and a good UI book will help you more than anything with "web" in the title.
- binarymax 16y agoI am also enjoying the irony of SM writing an article on minimalist design, when their site is the complete opposite.
- ugh 16y agoThey neither claim to have a minimalist website nor do they claim that being minimalist is always right.