What Is Good Design?
Qualities of Good and Useful Design
(D) What is good design (Alice R)
Shirley Wang Xinyi | Student ID: 13323 | Class: DCT 1C
17th October 2011
Qualities of Good and Useful Design
(D) What is good design (Alice R)
Shirley Wang Xinyi | Student ID: 13323 | Class: DCT 1C
17th October 2011
Qualities of Good and Useful Design
Rawsthorn (2008) stated that ‘Whatever it is, and whatever other great qualities it has, it can’t be well designed if it doesn’t do something useful.’, thus saying it is nonnegotiable.
A lot of good designs or artworks are easily exposed these days, intentional or not, as the digital world and transport technology allows the artists or designers to bloom in full scale to an international level even if some are not intended. Whether just posting online or just putting up a poster by the streets, the digital world and the transport technology plays a big role on how communication is vastly expending around the world, especially the internet which largely improved on how art is becoming more easily exposed and advertised easily. Many oncoming sites like your all-famous Facebook and the artist networking site Deviantart, showing everyone online everything whether it is good or bad designs, useful or not in anyway. But are we capable of differentiating good design from bad design?
So, what are the qualities of a good design? Is there a definite definition of a good design? How can one determine if a design is useful or not? Does it really mean, as Rawsthorn has mentioned, that when something is not useful, it is not a good design? You may think that a good design is something useful but to think about it, we may wonder upon what is it that makes it useful? So what really is good design then?
An online article of an architectural design based magazine, Metropolis. Under which Pederson (2009) listed that Good Design is ‘Sustainable’, ’Accessible’, ‘Functional’, ‘Well Made’, ‘Emotionally Resonant’, ‘Enduring’, ‘Socially
(D) What is good design (Alice R)
Shirley Wang Xinyi | Student ID: 13323 | Class: DCT 1C
17th October 2011
Qualities of Good and Useful Design
(D) What is good design (Alice R)
Shirley Wang Xinyi | Student ID: 13323 | Class: DCT 1C
17th October 2011
Qualities of Good and Useful Design
Rawsthorn (2008) stated that ‘Whatever it is, and whatever other great qualities it has, it can’t be well designed if it doesn’t do something useful.’, thus saying it is nonnegotiable.
A lot of good designs or artworks are easily exposed these days, intentional or not, as the digital world and transport technology allows the artists or designers to bloom in full scale to an international level even if some are not intended. Whether just posting online or just putting up a poster by the streets, the digital world and the transport technology plays a big role on how communication is vastly expending around the world, especially the internet which largely improved on how art is becoming more easily exposed and advertised easily. Many oncoming sites like your all-famous Facebook and the artist networking site Deviantart, showing everyone online everything whether it is good or bad designs, useful or not in anyway. But are we capable of differentiating good design from bad design?
So, what are the qualities of a good design? Is there a definite definition of a good design? How can one determine if a design is useful or not? Does it really mean, as Rawsthorn has mentioned, that when something is not useful, it is not a good design? You may think that a good design is something useful but to think about it, we may wonder upon what is it that makes it useful? So what really is good design then?
An online article of an architectural design based magazine, Metropolis. Under which Pederson (2009) listed that Good Design is ‘Sustainable’, ’Accessible’, ‘Functional’, ‘Well Made’, ‘Emotionally Resonant’, ‘Enduring’, ‘Socially
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