Software is an art. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Project SNOWFLAKE is an experiment to prove this through beautiful, minimalistic user interfaces. By suggesting alternate designs to some of most popular sites, this project wants to raise awareness on quality, beautiful, elegant human user interfaces.
In many ways, this project is a bold attempt to refine our taste in software. Whenever I come across applications that mock a cockpit at best, I wonder if many of us really do appreciate good, quality software – especially the user interfaces? Quality on user interface can instill a sense of pleasantness, and many of us instinctively know that this year 2013 has been marked pronouncedly by responsive user interfaces.
As part of SNOWFLAKE, I target some popular sites, some topics as a part of this independent experiment. Not surprisingly, meeting the basic requirements of any device, any browser support is no longer an issue. The time is perfect for fully responsive, and typographically adaptive user interfaces. Yet surprisingly, it is not a norm yet. It will be evident that fluid, beautiful, elegant user interfaces will prevail over geeky, complicated designs. Snowflake’s showcase demonstrates how elegant a user interface can be while retaining all of it’s usefulness. As is often the case, many beautiful user interfaces do exist. Some notable mentions will continue to get added in showcase, and I am delighted on this personal pursuit on beauty in human user interfaces, both spiritually and intellectually.
Through SNOWFLAKE I strive for beauty conveyed through human software user interfaces, endeavoring to promoting human user interfaces towards a status equal to that of art or music.
