{"id":210,"date":"2009-02-10T00:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T05:16:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:46:51","slug":"design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been reading a lot of things about design of late: Donald Norman<\/a>’s classic The Design of Everyday Things<\/a>, Jef Raskin’s<\/a> (disappointing) treatise on User Interface design The Humane Interface<\/a>, copies of Dwell<\/a> my mother passes to me when she finishes with them. In my Cognitive Sciences course, I think of many of the topics we discuss through the lens of a designer.
\nI came across Dieter Rams’<\/a> Ten Commandments on Design again today. All the babbling blowhards have managed to produce with their cognitive models and quantitative<\/a> approaches<\/a> (which I am usually all for) is summed up neatly in these ten statements. <\/p>\n

Good design is innovative<\/strong>.
\nIt does not copy existing product forms, nor does it produce any kind of novelty just for the sake of it. The essence of innovation must be clearly seen in all of a product\u2019s functions. Current technological development keeps offering new chances for innovative solutions.<\/p>\n

Good design makes a product useful<\/strong>.
\nThe product is bought or used in order to be used. It must serve a defined purpose \u2014 in both primary and additional functions. The most important task of design is to optimize the utility of a product\u2019s usability.<\/p>\n

Good design is aesthetic<\/strong>.
\nThe aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.<\/p>\n

Good design helps us to understand<\/strong> a product.
\nIt clarifies the product\u2019s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.<\/p>\n

Good design is unobtrusive<\/strong>.
\nProducts fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user\u2019s self-expression.<\/p>\n

Good design is honest<\/strong>.
\nIt does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it normally is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.<\/p>\n

Good design has longevity<\/strong>.
\nIt does not follow trends that become outdated after a short time. Well designed products differ significantly from short-lived trivial products in today\u2019s throwaway society.<\/p>\n

Good design is consequent<\/strong> to the last detail.
\nNothing must be arbitrary. Thoroughness and accuracy in the design process shows respect toward the user.<\/p>\n

Good design is concerned with the environment<\/strong>.
\nDesign must make contributions toward a stable environment and sensible raw material situation. This does not only include actual pollution, but also visual pollution and destruction of our environment.<\/p>\n

Good design is as little<\/strong> design as possible<\/strong>.
\nLess is better \u2014 because it concentrates on the essential aspects and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity!<\/p>\n

(I find I like it better with the selectively bolded words, that was my doing). I would really like to know when and where these were originally published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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