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The point is, don’t confuse the minimalism or lack thereof in a design for there actually being fewer details that need binding. When people get lazy about binding details using minimalist aesthetics as an excuse you end up with designs or stories that don’t work at all.
I like minimalism done well where there is no good reason to complicate things, and so long as you you don’t sacrifice details that matter (a la infamous Apple puck mouse). I’m not a fractal-fetish trad, prizing texture in fiction/engineering for its own illegibly vitalist sake.
But for all but the simplest artifacts and stories, I do like non-minimalism in a different sense: opinionated design. I don’t need richly textured design. But I like things and takes where a few interchangeable aspects have been elevated to influential or essential aspects.
Interchangeable aspects of a design define a vast design space. Indifferent design picks randomly or lazily (eg uncritical imitation) from the space, which is as it should be for most details. But if you don’t promote say 5-20% of detail to influential, you fail in a key way.
The thing is, vast design spaces are scary and distressing to experience. They channel the vast indifference of the universe. It’s like a total perspective vortex. Opinionated design cuts that vast dimensionality a bit and makes you feel a bit more at home in the universe.
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I really appreciate this sentiment and entire thread. Variable names in code examples have been a crusade of mine for over a decade. Abstract names make the technique hard to respect and hard to recall. Often they add mental gymnastics for the reader to juggle roles of things.
Borges is often called a minimalist. He has a story that’s only one paragraph long. But I love his work exactly because it’s not minimalist but “miniaturist”. He sneaks in so much detail. It’s like the aging marks and tiny bits of moss that make a hand-painted model feel real.
The one paragraph story is called On Exactitude In Science and here is all of it:pic.twitter.com/SfBdMI6xvp
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