We got used to minimal and simple design solutions. They have been everywhere around us since that very moment minimal design became popular. However, it appeared, that simple designs are the most complicated ones and we know this for sure.

Typically, we see how people got mistaken about simple design solutions on the example of junior UI/UX specialists. When they only enter the industry, they try to make something complex and complicated, but still, they never understand that the best solution is the simplest one. The same goes when people who don’t work in design see mobile apps for example. When the app is clear and minimalistic, people don’t realize how much time it took to create something like this. At the same time, when people see overwhelmed interface, they feel like it is something that really took a lot of time and effort. However, this belief is really not right.

Do you know how hard it is to make a good-looking minimalistic interface? Interface, that will be easy to use and navigate and at the same time, an interface, that will be complex and will have all the functions required. Making UX almost invisible, and making key functions in the interface simple to find and easy to use is pure art.

Sophisticated Side of Simple Designs

When we think of design, we all should come back to one key idea. Making design based on pure and clean forms is much more complicated than using different colours and pallets, lots of animation and illustrations. The key reason is that it will be harder to notice if there are any mistakes in the visual mess than if the interface will be clear and clean.

The second reason why simple design is sophisticated is that it requires real creativity to make a new design solution using not many visual elements and not using a lot of visual effects. Coming from that it will be hard to make 2 interfaces, that will be different from each other. But essential designers know: each startup idea may be shared effectively via the clean and easy-to-understand interface.

Simple Side of Sophisticated Designs

If a good design is created in a really good way, the user will see that any complicated first glance solution consists of numerous clean and simple things. For example, if there will be a huge platform for accountants, that will be hard to understand even for progressive users of web apps, several simple elements, that will form this huge platform can turn it into something simple.

All hard-to-take things are simple if you see the details. If all the details are cleaned out and pretty simple, you will see how the most sophisticated things become your best friends.

Design is complicated initially. You can’t make oil production simple. As well as you can’t make AI Technologies something simple. Same foes for UI/UX design. This is something complicated initially, so thinking of it as something simple is simply not objective. At the same time, you should not be afraid of complicated solutions, build them up from simple things and you will see how it all may work in balance.