Honestly, a minimalist UI is like a barebones skeleton. If you strip away all the fluff, you let the logic breathe, but only if the architecture itself is clean. If the code is spaghetti, the UI will feel austere and just make you sweat. So the trick is to align your domain models and dependency inversion with the visual flow—think of each screen as another layer of abstraction. If you keep the layers pure and separate, the interface naturally becomes simple, but if you let the UI drive the business logic, you end up with cognitive overload disguised as minimalism. Just make sure the clean architecture is the backbone, not a decorative overlay.

Yeah, it’s like building a universe: the UI is just the starfield, the real work happens in the core. If your domain layers are tangled, the starfield looks pretty but the gravity pulls you into a mess. Keep the layers clean and the UI will look minimal, not austere. And don’t forget – a true minimal UI should feel like a VR corridor: no unnecessary buttons, just a path that follows the logic. Otherwise you’re just polishing a wreck.

Exactly, it’s all about the mental map. If the navigation logic is a maze of hidden callbacks, even a slick VR corridor feels like a labyrinth. The user should get the intent just by glancing at the next interaction point, not pulling out a blueprint. If that fails, you’re still dressing a broken engine in a minimal shell. Keep the paths atomic and the intent explicit, otherwise the “minimal” will just be a brutal, empty void.