5 principles of good design that are too often ignored...

Can your design pass these filters?

Good design makes a product useful. Emphasizes the usefulness of a product while disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Good design makes a product understandable. Can make the product talk.
Good design is unobtrusive. Leaves room for the user’s self expression.
Good design is honest. Doesn’t manipulate the consumer with promises that can’t be kept.
Good design is as little design as possible. Concentrates on the essentials and the product is not burdened with non-essentials.

This list is an excerpt of a top 10 list by Dieter Rams. I just pulled my top 5 from the top 10, cuz that’s how I roll. (Thanks to Dieter for the list and Jeff Myers for sharing the link.)