[kannanvijayan]

There's a risk of misaligned perspectives here.

What you've called out is meaningful, but it includes an implied requirement that you're not spelling out: the time and effort and attention to detail, along with the history of experience, to really apply the principles you are talking about to a project.

When I read the main article, I interpreted it from my perspective. I'm mostly a systems person. I can appreciate the points you mentioned, but I don't have those other implied things that are prerequisites for applying those concepts effectively.

Without rules of thumb like these, the UIs I design end up looking like grade school collages. Building UIs that make people _feel good_ when using them is not my core competency. I'm just looking for a baseline level of quality.

I believe there are two cohorts here: the people who want to make UIs that are beautiful, and the people who need to make UIs that are not hot garbage.. and we're reading the article from our respective perspectives.