Principles Of Minimalist Web Design

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/13/principles-of-minimalist-web-design-with-examples/

by bearwithclaws • 16 years ago

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megamark16• 16 years ago

I like this part: "Subtract Until It Breaks". It's easy to put stuff on a page or in an app because someone might need it, but when you start really limiting yourself it forces you to put it (be it a button or some text, whatever) where it's most intuitive, not just blast it all over the site.

bobbyi• 16 years ago

That should be the only one listed. What sort of minimalist needs seven principles?

grk• 16 years ago

I think you could just randomly shuffle the 'examples' and they would make just as much sense.

akaalias• 16 years ago

So agreed. Yes.

blehn• 16 years ago

The problem with this article (other than the usual SM lack of substance) is that almost all the examples are portfolio sites for artists and designers. How about showing these principles applied to more complex projects - applications, e-commerce sites, corporate sites, admin systems, etc?

irondavycole• 16 years ago

This is the problem with most SM articles and with most web design sites in general. I say this as someone who is featured in this post. Portfolio sites have a perfect reason to be minimal: the work comes first.

But that's what you get from an article that takes an aesthetic and works backwards — the exact opposite of a good design process.

iamdave• 16 years ago

I think at least 80% of the links in this article have been featured on SM before, actually.

Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/25/55-minimal-black-...

derefr• 16 years ago

Web design is basically communications design, on the Internet; it doesn't involve functional aspects (just reading, and finding/clicking links to enable more reading.) When you're designing a web app—industrial design, on the Internet—you're just doing UI design, and a good UI book will help you more than anything with "web" in the title.

binarymax• 16 years ago

I am also enjoying the irony of SM writing an article on minimalist design, when their site is the complete opposite.

ugh• 16 years ago

They neither claim to have a minimalist website nor do they claim that being minimalist is always right.

MWinther• 16 years ago

Interesting reading, but way too many examples dilute the message.

aleem• 16 years ago

http://aleembawany.com/2008/12/04/minimalist-design-guidelin...

kadavy• 16 years ago

Lots of cool examples, but I wouldn't call these "principles."

The Real Principles of Minimalist Web Design: Size, Weight, Contrast, Texture, Proportion, and Respect for the Medium.

Principles Of Minimalist Web Design

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