In the context of more and more content, designers should reduce the interference of useless information so that users can quickly focus on the content itself, this "less is more" design thinking is what we often say the minimalist style.
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The simplest and most brutal rule to shape the app's minimalist style is:
The deletion of non-functional elements unrelated to user tasks preserves only important information and reduces the user's cognitive load.
So how to judge the choice of a design element?
APP UI Designers should ask themselves the following three questions:
1. What role does this design element play in the current interface? What functions can be completed?
2, remove the future will affect the normal operation of users?
3, if the impact of user operations, can be more concise design elements to replace?
Here's an example:
as shown in the Weibo app's interface:
can the icon below each dynamic in the microblogging app interface be removed?
the use of the icon here is mainly used to improve the readability of information, because with respect to text information, the image element can be better to complete the communication of information. But this is just a boost, even if I take the icon away, users will know that these three are forwarded, commented and liked.
and in which the forwarding, comment, like the icon can be removed?
answer of course not, we have to consider different usage scenarios. Different interface interaction strategies and other factors to measure.
when no one likes, comments, and forwards this dynamic, we take the icon away without a problem.
But once the interaction has occurred, icon has completely replaced the text as the only identifiable element of the feature, followed by the number of interactive intensity.
even though I have always admired the "one" application, its interface design is simply not easy, here still retains the icon, so I tend to retain, of course, if you have a better solution to communicate.
as shown, the best app case proves that:
The second deletion is to remove all unnecessary functions until the deletion cannot continue.
in the process of design, often think of in case the user needs this function but can not find, so it is better to stay. In fact, this idea is not needed, as long as this function for the product positioning users, not the majority of people need not have the value of existence, and sometimes delete better than left.
This is a lot of things. such as the music player interface:
so a lot of times, when we design the app interface, we need to think over and over again.
How to achieve simplicity through different color and layout design, so that users feel the level of clear, focused, simple and very professional, is the problem that every designer wants to know.
In addition to the usual look, think, do more, there are some simplified Appui interface tips, also need to know.
while it's more, it doesn't mean you can reduce functionality at will, and you want to create a minimalist product design that can be removed, organized, hidden, and transferred in four ways.
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