10 Principles of Good Design
Published 2009-09-10 @ 14:01
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(Picked this up at work yesterday. Good stuff.)
10 Principles of Good Design
- 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.
From Dieter Rams, the design force behind Braun in the 60s.
Rams’s motto:
“Weniger, aber besser.”
(“Less, but better.”)