An unDesigned website :?

An another exploration of my idle brain. I found the term on Internet on a travel web-site's blog, initially I used to hate that sort of designs but after reading I found the website and its design to be very creative and 100% satisfactory in terms of user friendliness.

I too have started unDesigning our site (www.Dayal.co.in) and was busy for a couple of days realizing that whether I 'd be able to or not.

Anyways, till I am through it, you may read the article below I just picked unedited;

Introducing undesign

There has been some chatter about the concept of “undesign”. I struggled to find a definition of it that I could publish so I am going to come up with my own:

I now define undesign as a web design that has the following characteristics:

1. Copy / text is the user interface - The words, the size of text, the length of the sentence, the paragraph breaks - all of this forms the user interface (rather than creating containers with graphics - and placing text / copy inside those containers)
   
2. Links are text based - not images
   
3. There are no gratuitous user interface elements - I define gratuitous as those that either don’t provide information (for example stars on a star rating) nor assist with usability (for example lines between sections - acting as dividers).
   
4. Usability is prioritised over visual branding - the design is engineered to be used - not admired like a piece of static art.
   

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So what you end up with is a mainly text website. It sounds dull but it isn’t trust me.
- Amol