Minimal but unreadable
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Rule · bucket: judgment · severity: note · detector: none · since: v0.1.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: States and interaction

Forbidden:
  Unlabelled icon navigation, a selected state signalled by a barely-different tint, primary actions hidden in an overflow menu, low-contrast icons

Instead:
  Minimal is not the same as simple. A sparse interface that omits labels, states and actions is harder to use than a slightly busier one that names them.

The test is not how little is on screen. It is whether someone can tell what things are, which one is selected, and what they can do next. Remove decoration freely; never remove the answers to those three questions.