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by alganet 415 days ago
Remember when this idea bred those fake minimalist preachers? Mistaking constraint-based design for asceticism?

Too much constraints, you end up in a corner.

It reminds me of Windows Metro. That was good constraint-based design. Lots of clever thinking in the good direction. Windows 8 was great (hey, Apple copied some of it, the highest form of praise).

Eames was smart. Translating those things to tech is often a challenge. Keeping the thing human is difficult.