One of the main design principles for website design is simplicity. Jakob Nielsen XXXXXXXXXXproposed that designers go through all of their design elements and remove them one by one. If a design...

One of the main design principles for website design is simplicity. Jakob Nielsen (1999) proposed that designers go through all of their design elements and remove them one by one. If a design works just as well without an element, then remove it. Do you think this is a good design principle? If you have your own website, try doing this and seeing what happens. At what point does the interaction break down?