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For me, "I press the button and it does what I wanted" is both minimalist and elegant. Form must follow function.
by crabmusket 3y ago
For me, "I press the button and it does what I wanted" is both minimalist and elegant. Form must follow function.
- primax 3y agoI'd disagree, because a button for everything means a button for every function. This very quickly becomes cluttered, which is the opposite of minimalist.
- crabmusket 3y agoEverything can be done badly; a digital design can be just as cluttered as a physical one. And conversely, a physical design with few, well-chosen functions doesn't need to be cluttered. I also didn't say I wanted a button for every function. But this is getting off into the weeds. My aim was to say that "minimalism" can be applied in different ways. For example, minimalism in the number of features, or in the complexity of the overall system, or in the ease of operating it.