It's fruitless to opine on Design but never push boundaries in the act of creation because you're chained by the paradigms of your time & place.
A worthwhile design is usually self-evident, even though the process of arriving at a certain aesthetic is likely invisible.
The level of hard thinking and offbeat application of creativity that's part of someone's DNA, allowing them to take 'hard to describe' sensibilities and engineer them into an interface will only ever be obvious to a few.
It's why we never talk about Design — having crossed a certain threshold in life, the need for its explanation feels empty.
We choose to speak instead about the things which matter, like:
- The driving forces leading us to explore in unconventional ways.
- The inner battles overcome that shape the pursuit of refinement.
- And not least, the circumstances that mold our inner voices, which refuse to be like anyone else.
Creation, design, and simplicity are, after all extensions of who we are. It's the imparting of what we've endured to something beyond ourselves.
Hopefully, done beautifully.