[harmon_michael]

I can't find a specific quote but I know Deiter Rams said that design should make a product useful, or give priority to usability. I've always felt the same and am often perplexed by what is shared around the internet passing for "good design". I've been doing/learning graphic design since I was a little kid (photoshop 7 back when I was 12) I've since moved on to marketing and entrepreneurship (more of an evolution than a transition) but it's only further cemented this idea for me that design should be useful and achieve something not merely be pretty.

Minimalism is awesome, but your right often people take it too far and sacrifice value for the sake of making it pretty. The real crime isn't in designers doing this, but in the community celebrating it as good design.

but your absolutely right.