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Nothing in nature is that flat or that simple. Millions of years of evolution have made our eyes adapted to look at things with texture. The idea of creating in

Nothing in nature is that flat or that simple. Millions of years of evolution have made our eyes adapted to look at things with texture. The idea of creating interfaces that only convey information that is needed does not mesh with human nature. A good analogy for this is exercise. You would think that the more you use a machine the more wear and tear it will gain. Counter intuitively our bodies are designed to be used and are actually more healthy the more you use it. Same with the world our eyes interact with. You would think our user interfaces should be minimal but our eyes are designed to work with noise. Flat interfaces don't really exist in nature and they should not exist in UI. I propose a new design movement. Like the Paleo diet, I call it Paleo design.

ScottFree 7y ago
> I call it Paleo design Go for it. Come up with some rules + create some examples + market the hell out of it + charge for training classes = profit!
- crimsonalucard 7y ago
  Arrows are artificial to the eyes. They never existed in nature. However, people have been recognizing hand signals for years. Paleo design involves replacing all flat arrows with a photorealistic picture of a hand curled into a fist with the index finger pointing at the subject. That's a free lesson in paleo design for you!
  - lainga 7y ago
    Next, we'll be simplifying the hand down to a few strokes in a well-defined order, and...
    - crimsonalucard 7y ago
      Right, the optic nerve between the eye and the human brain has finite bandwidth. As a designer you want to minimize the information traveling across the wire to maximize efficiency. An arrow represents the minimum amount of strokes needed to convey the needed information. I shall call this minimal form of design "minimalism!"
  - yissp 7y ago
    We've found evidence of bows and arrows from at least 60k years ago. I think that plenty old enough to qualify as "paleo" :)

ScottFree 7y ago

> I call it Paleo design Go for it. Come up with some rules + create some examples + market the hell out of it + charge for training classes = profit!

crimsonalucard 7y ago
Arrows are artificial to the eyes. They never existed in nature. However, people have been recognizing hand signals for years. Paleo design involves replacing all flat arrows with a photorealistic picture of a hand curled into a fist with the index finger pointing at the subject. That's a free lesson in paleo design for you!
- lainga 7y ago
  Next, we'll be simplifying the hand down to a few strokes in a well-defined order, and...
  - crimsonalucard 7y ago
    Right, the optic nerve between the eye and the human brain has finite bandwidth. As a designer you want to minimize the information traveling across the wire to maximize efficiency. An arrow represents the minimum amount of strokes needed to convey the needed information. I shall call this minimal form of design "minimalism!"
- yissp 7y ago
  We've found evidence of bows and arrows from at least 60k years ago. I think that plenty old enough to qualify as "paleo" :)