Marie Kondo your designs
Streamlining a design to eliminate any "noise" in a user flow is increasing important.

This excellent piece by Krisztina Szerovay highlights "the most important balancing act" that is an incredibly critical component of excellent digital product design. This quote captures why:
How to remove or hide everything that’s just noise at a given point of the user flow, and at the same time, keep or display all the content and functionality that’s needed.