Minimal but unreadable
- 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.
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Why this rule
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.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- States and interaction
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0