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> Fundamentally, pleasing design is about repetition and consistency. Fundamentally, what makes design pleasing is super hard to reason about. If it was mostl
by jstummbillig 4y ago
> Fundamentally, pleasing design is about repetition and consistency.
Fundamentally, what makes design pleasing is super hard to reason about.
If it was mostly about repetition and consistency, any webpage that used bootstrap or no css at all would be pleasing. If pleasing minimalism was very easy to pull off, nobody would take note of Apple products.
- somewhereoutth 4y agoApple is basically Bauhaus for nerd stuff - and that is no small thing. Perhaps if the microcomputer had been first commercialised in Europe they'd all look like that anyway.
- chaostheory 4y agoPersonally, I view Apple more as a fashion house that sells tech.
- nfgrep 4y agoThose fashion designers make a pretty mean little RISC chip.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoIf instead of "very easy" would you be happy if I said minimalism is the "least hard" to pull off?
- sings 4y agoCue Kevin McCloud from Grand Design whose standard rant about minimalism is that it’s actually the hardest to pull off because you aren’t hiding behind anything. All of your decisions are exposed, so you have to be even more thoughtful about attaining cohesion in the final form. Of course, he is talking about buildings which is a different thing, but I think some of what he says applies to other design fields too, including UI design.