Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Alice Rawsthorn
Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
A good product is:
- Innovative; it must have creativity
- Useful
- Beautiful
- Easy to use
- Unobtrusive, modest
- Honest
- Timeless ; it won’t become outdated
- Doesn’t skip over any small details
- Environmentally friendly and doesn’t waste resources
- Not overly designed, “less is more”
Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
From S. Lovell, “Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible”, 2010 Apr
Forward by Jony Ive
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