In today’s digital landscape, it feels like we’re being constantly bombarded with loud, autoplaying popups, intrusive cookie permission forms, and annoying AI chatbots that get in the way of the user experience more than they improve it. Though some might argue otherwise, I think it’s pretty clear that, for most of us, these are flaws, not features. That’s why a lot of web designers out there are in dire need of a wake-up call. Stop focusing on the noise and the clutter, and strip everything back to the essentials that users actually want, then refine those elements to create a frictionless user experience that will get browsers coming back for more. That is what minimalist web design is all about. What is Minimalism? Minimalism doesn’t only apply to web design. It’s been around for decades, started as an artistic design movement in the 1950s, and really flourished in the 60s and 70s.…