Too Minimal

The battery on my wireless Mighty Mouse went out, and I needed quick mousing for a few things. That, and because I am a lazy–butt who doesn’t have any more easily–purchased–from–a–store batteries. The complete lack of any surplus functions other than axial and clicking made me realize that, sometimes, you can be too minimal.

For instance, the old–style single–button Apple Pro Mouse. It is stylish, but the lack of buttons makes me want to kill. That was the most two minutes of my entire day, something I don’t want to recall, ever again.

My experience with the simplistic mouse reminded me that there is a time to remove features, and there is a time to add them. Since opening this site for blogging wares (among other things), the goal was not to overwhelm with flair, but only what it necessary. This limited some of the aesthetic decisions, but the most important part is, and has always been, the written words.

To that effect, on this site there are no comments, no links to various social networks, and no massive advertising campaigns. It isn’t because I’m against that sort of thing, it’s because I just haven’t added them—yet. I do not think I will ever add blogging pieces of flair, in any regard. While I’m sure there are thousands of users who have used them successfully, I find even the idea trending to the gauche.

Besides my mousing incident, I was reminded how minimalist design seems to be growing in popularity on sites like Tumblr or FFFFOUND! While I understand the milieux (people focused on nothing but the quality of the content), there’s something to be said about the frame. I think this means that my taste in the matter is changing.

There was a time when I was trying to make this site as artifact–free as possible. Just as there are times to add and times to subtract, this could be the time for additions. Nothing drastic, of course. As I remarked after adding the d3ft links to the site, this is just another part of the natural evolution of the site.