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Peak Minimalism: The moment before you remove just one more thing from your design, which suddenly makes it feel cold and inhumane. A design that makes logical sense but is too reduced to feel good has crossed Peak Minimalism, because human communication relies on Redundancy. ia.net crossed Peak Minimalism when we removed the site navigation. We put it back. iA Writer crossed it when we removed all icons. We put them back. In spite of tons of involuntary UX redundancies, Windows 10 climbed the Mount Everest of minimalism. And like all minimalist peaks, it is not uncool.