Good design
Yanis Markin and
Good design
The Vignelli Canon
The Vignelli Canon outlines fundamental design principles, emphasizing semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics, along with the importance of discipline, appropriateness, and visual power for effective and timeless design practices.
rit.eduAs a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.
Paul Graham • Taste for Makers
“Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams
"nothing was left to chance; everything must be deeply considered"
- Design Principles – Design for scanning, not reading! Take advantage of conventions. Create effective visual hierarchies Break pages up into clearly defined areas. Make it obvious what’s clickable. Eliminate distractions. Format content to support scanning . Keep paragraphs short. Use bulleted lists. Highlight key terms.
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug – The Rabbit Hole
He is quoted as stating that "Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.
Dieter Rams - Wikipedia
Alara and
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the
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If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)