Dieter Rams
A good product is:
- Innovative; it must have creativity
- Useful
- Beautiful
- Easy to use
- Unobtrusive, modest
- Honest
- Timeless ; it won’t become outdated
- Doesn’t skip over any small details
- Environmentally friendly and doesn’t waste resources
- Not overly designed, “less is more”
Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher on how to make something great: "Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."
We can see the philosophy of “less but better” reflected in the lives of other notable and diverse figures—both religious and secular—throughout history: to name a few, the Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs, Leo Tolstoy, Michael Jordan, Warren Buffett, Mother Teresa, and Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as
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affordable is beside the point. Design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”²
Scott Berkun • How Design Makes the World
Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern
youtube.comThe more constraints there are, the easier the design task is.