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Comment by lordleft | Hacker News Reader

I think it's gorgeous.

When people, particularly designers, say something is "too intricate" or whatever, it's usually just a signal they wouldn't have the skills to make something like it.

Late 2000's/ early 2010's there was a rush of college students wanting to pursue app/ web design. Colleges had no faculty to fill that, so they just took print design professors and they shoehorned print philosophy into interaction design and we ended up with a generation of designers who don't have the first idea about depth hierarchy, affordance, etc and everything looks like a scrollable poster now.

I often criticize designs for being overcomplicated. I wouldn't level that criticism towards this seal, though, and I don't have the skill to make it.

In software design[1] if I say too intricate it does not mean I don't have the skills to do it, it means the typical user (the developers working with the system) will have difficulty in working with the component.

Simple and functional design is considerably harder . I don't see why other design streams are that different. I would be worried if a civil/mechanical engineer said a bridge is too intricate .

[1] Technical/ Systems design not Graphic/UX design.

Fashion design is a counter example.

Scrollable poster. That's how every 'modern web' site feels to me. Case-in-point: lovefrom.com. Makes me want to maximise the browser window on my 30" monitor and still doesn't seem enough.

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