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No, just no. I understand that to push the current state further, you need to think outside of the box, but what you call bland, I call essential to communicati
by natecavanaugh 8y ago
No, just no. I understand that to push the current state further, you need to think outside of the box, but what you call bland, I call essential to communication.
I find the David Carson quote (confusing communication with legibility) to be ridiculous on it's face. If your intention is to communicate information, it needs to be legible, clear, and understandable. If your goal is to make beautiful designs, fine, but understand and state your goal.
Not a single website redesign here would ever work, and would be offensive as a user trying to consume information.
Design is about embracing constraints for the medium to solve a goal. This is about removing any constraint to make a pretty picture.
Great, looks nice, but I won't ever use it.
So what was the real goal?