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I think it's often the opposite, the product of over-designing something. The designer comes up with a design, but he feels it's not good enough, so he keeps it
by Mahn 14y ago
I think it's often the opposite, the product of over-designing something. The designer comes up with a design, but he feels it's not good enough, so he keeps iterating and adding more, eventually ending up with something more complex than it needed to be. I think most of us folks here building stuff can relate to this. What's hard is for the designer to settle, to think "alright, this will not wow people and is not mind blowing, but it will do the job well".
- ramsaylanier 14y agoI think this is exactly it. Speaking as a designer, its hard to just let go and keep things simple because we always want to tinker. I come from a print and graphic design background where form vastly outweighs function, so learning simple web design was something I had to work at and learn in order to get a nice balance of function and form.