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This is another post illuminating the new minimalist trend in website design. The old minimalism was about "elegance", but this new trend is more about utility: we don't need CSS, just content, so why bother! I don't like this utilitarian take. It's fun to design a website.

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Pretty sure it only comes from engineers. Not sure it’s a new trend.

I appreciate it personally. I think most styling is about UX and not communicating information (although it can improve that). But I think it’s at least jaded and probably even a terrible idea to suggest websites should generally be implemented this way.

I genuinely believe a site can be extremely minimal without sacrificing the visual component. But I also believe some people are pushing the visual part way too far to the point where sites are genuinely hard and frustrating to use.

I agree, it's a response to websites being over-designed to the point of being less usable/accessible, but this feels like a dramatic over-correction.

It probably is. The hope is that after a swing in each direction we can land in some sort of middle ground.

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