Are we confusing less is more with laziness in design research?
Using templates and premade designs for web development and development in general agilizes the workflow and even if working with a design or just a mvp the template can stay while polishing the work.
For most cases small companies work around design systems that are based around css frameworks, making easy to setup templates, most css frameworks are plain and minimalist, or material design, this is a lack of creativity in a lot of senses, in the other case designer go for a riskless aproach, using easy to go layouts and minimal structures to setup plain and serious pieces which can be programmed in low time, even for wysiwyg resources like wordpress or wix the majority of the designs made with these systems are minimal, even the concept of that software is around minimalism, to work with what you get, what you can see.
taking risks in creating intrincated designs for products can lead to further research and increase in costs, not only for UI designers or product designers but for marketing and UX, and for something that has to deploy fast, you cant take that hassle
So... Is minimalism design and/or plain design systems the result of fast iterations and laziness? Maybe.
Big companies are taking this approach too, because most minimalism designs are most readable, easy to go, and... easy to comprehend...? But isnt the reason for branding to be complex but at the same rememberable? and minimalism lacks in that, a pair of lines and a circle doesnt make an impactful design .
It is an easy to comprehend design, but easy to forget too, lacks impact, doing something different can lead to more impactful results, maximalism is not dead, is there for people who wants give a little more effort for better results and satisfaction.
As designer, you wont be remembered on how many problems did you solve, but how many creative solutions you gave.
I am not against minimalism, i am against overcharging certain trends , or using the wrong tools.
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