What is good design?
by James Marzano on May.25, 2005, under Philosophy
Tough question but it’s easy to make things difficult to use. It’s the easy way out in the project when you don’t take sufficient time to design things right the first time. We’ve all used products built like this, at least for a while until they hit the trash can or got forgotten. The first use was the last use.
On the other hand, good design is hard. When you use a well-designed product it just works. It appears simple, it must have been easy to build, right? Wrong. Good design is rarely easy. It’s this design that took more planning and thought. This is the design that usually took more time to build. It’s this design that followed a user-centered process.
