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What is Good Design?
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
What is Good Design?
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose”
Charles Eames
What is Good Design?
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hofmann
What is Good Design?
“If a site is perfectly usable but it lacks an elegant and appropriate design style, it will fail.”
Curt Cloninger
What is Good Design?
“Taking the Ordinary and Making it Extraordinary”Debbie Travis
What is Good Design?
1. What it Does
it can't be well designed if it doesn't do something useful
What is Good Design?
2. How it Looks
function is seldom enough, it has to look good too!
What is Good Design?
3. What’s New?
realizing the potential of new
things
What is Good Design?
4. How it Works
so easy to work you don’t need an instruction manual
What is Good Design?
5. Guilt
How can we consider something to be well
designed unless we feel confident about the way it was designed and made, and will be eventually be
disposed of?
Watch Out!!!!!!
In design there is often the failure to separate innovation from renovation
DISCUSSION
You were asked to bring a small item that you like.Why do you like it?How about that remote control? Do you like it? Why or Why not?What is your favorite magazine?
ASSIGNMENT
Take a magazine that you have not seen and probably never pick up to read.Look through that magazine and find a concept that you could apply to your website. Saying I don’t like it and can’t find a concept is not an option.
9 ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD WEB DESIGN
How does your site stack up?
Resources• http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/arts/design9.
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• http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html• http://id.bobulate.com/readings/gooddesign.pdf • http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/9-e• http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/
index.htmlssential-principles-for-good-web-design/ • http://www.digital-web.com/articles/
principles_and_elements_of_design/• http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/gdesign/index.html
