When I decided I wanted to create this blog and name it Good Design Only, I realized that I would likely need to explain what I meant by good design. This would be both for the education of the topic and so people wouldn’t think I was being pretentious in thinking that what I like is the best, solely because I like it.
I am an interior architecture and design student, so I have had many classes that have talked about design and how it relates to the world around us. I have also had multiple professors specifically talk about the concept of good design and for good reason, it impacts every aspect of our lives.
In one of my recent lectures, my professor talked about the specifics of what makes a good design and I knew immediately that I wanted to include some of the ideas he talked about in this article. While the headings are the specific categories he came up with, I am paraphrasing how he described each one and have even included two criteria of my own at the end.
10 Principles of Good Design
Explore Dieter Ram’s 10 Principles of Good Design that perfectly summarize the essence of what makes one design better than another.