Reducing design to pure visual style is similar to reducing programming to writing lines of code. Neither is enough to create a useful, engaging product. Neithe

Reducing design to pure visual style is similar to reducing programming to writing lines of code. Neither is enough to create a useful, engaging product. Neither nice code nor nice style in itself means that your product is good. I assume the original post was written in response to a personal experience and then generalized into blanket statements. This seems to happen a lot online with all the "X lessons from Y" blog posts floating around.