Minimalism is in direct opposition to first-order retrievability.
Very common example: home kitchens have cabinets, commercial kitchens have shelves and racks. When speed really matters, the cabinet doors need to go.
Very common example: home kitchens have cabinets, commercial kitchens have shelves and racks. When speed really matters, the cabinet doors need to go.
If people work without things in plain sight, it is because they have committed what is out-of-sight to memory, which is kind of an ongoing burden.
My tool chest is sort of a hybrid - the drawers are sort of an index, and when you open the "screwdrivers" drawer, they are all in plain sight to choose (and return).
I wish more house cabinets had wide shallow drawers to solve other problems this way.
Kitchens still have cabinets. Where are my cluttered websites at?
I don't think every single website needs "speed." Specially when I go to some websites sometimes and they have a 2 megapixel PNG as favicon but a minimalist, border-rounded flat designe Wordpress theme.