For a comparison to a minimal design that has to support interaction consider the 606 Universal Shelving System [1] designed by Dieter Rams. Note that even though it's minimalist, every openable door/shelf/drawer has affordance that indicate where and how to open it - whether they're handles, holes for your hand or ridges you can grab onto.
Modern UI design has pushed past this stage of minimalism into something that's user hostile. Like those shelf doors where you have to push one side or the other to make the door pop out a bit and become actually grabbable - and it's not clear which side of the door needs to be pushed.
Modern UI design has pushed past this stage of minimalism into something that's user hostile. Like those shelf doors where you have to push one side or the other to make the door pop out a bit and become actually grabbable - and it's not clear which side of the door needs to be pushed.
[1] https://d2lsod3xpjaepj.cloudfront.net/files/assets/1000/219/...