minimalist fad?
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Even in the age of high speed internet access, one page portfolios are about the worst route a designer take / should take. Why?
Even with a high speed connection, it takes far too long to download the entire site, and more times than not, the content does not justify the long download process.
This is the deal: you all are designers. True graphic design should communicate what you want it to AND provide a worthwhile user experience. It's not all about pretty graphics. People actually need to use this, and scrolling down a page that can take multiple minutes to download piled ontop of the fact that you are making your user scroll (which, last time I checked, most people do not like to do) creates for a terrible user experience.
All this is not even stopping to consider that most of these one page books pretty much a cookie cutter as you can get.
I personally think that the one page book is a terrible idea, right from conception. This is not minimallism, it is maximilism in sheep's clothing. Dear lord people: If you are a graphic designer, design for your end users, not you. That's what you are supposed to be doing.