Ten principles of good design by Dieter Rams, Industrial Designer [ Read his profile on DesignMuseum.org]:
- Good design is innovative.
- Good design makes a product useful.
- Good design is aesthetic.
- Good design helps us to understand a product.
- Good design is unobtrusive.
- Good design is honest.
- Good design is durable.
- Good design is consequent to the last detail.
- Good design is concerned with the environment.
- Good design is as little design as possible.
- Back to purity, back to simplicity.
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Hope its stir u for a bit:
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects”.
Robert A Heinlen.
Of the mentioned points of rams, almost all points r not so GREAT to have a thought of and lept in our little brain. Design to me means *simple* or no-brainer. And yes from one of best quotes i read “…it has to be up to handling the job it was created to do.” –
Thanx for the blog
Or in short,
a good design should be ‘user friendly’ by solving the purpose it’s meant for and looking aesthetically.
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