Design guidelines
Posted on March 7, 2007 by Melissa Worden
Blogging about a blog that’s been blogged (did you follow that?), but this entry by Angela Grant, summarizing an entry by Joshua Porter about design guidelines needs to be shared.
I won’t list all the advice here, because it’s already been done twice. But I particularly like this advice:
Great Design is Invisible. An interesting property of great design is that it is taken for granted. It works so well that we forget that creative effort was involved to bring it about. Sometimes, like with the lowly spoon, the object is so simplistic that it seems obvious, and we disregard that at one point in history it wasn’t. Other times, like with the automobile, the object is so sophisticated yet easy-to-use that we’re blinded to the fact that millions and millions of human-hours went into getting it to this point. That’s a shame…every great design has a rich history. And every design has behind it a designer or designers who tried to make the world a better place by solving some problem or another.
Good stuff.
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