{"id":13,"date":"2011-02-15T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-02-15T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T06:40:29","slug":"dieter-rams-ten-principles-for-good-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/2011\/02\/dieter-rams-ten-principles-for-good-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieter Rams&#8217; ten principles for good design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dieter_Rams\">Dieter Rams<\/a> via my frequent reading about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> design methodology. I love his &#8220;ten principles for good design&#8221;. I first started studying Dieter when I learned about a book called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/designmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/2009\/2009-2009-dieter-rams\">Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams<\/a>&#8221; and ordered it. While I was waiting for it to arrive I did some web reading on Dieter and realized that I had actually seen him before as one of the first interview subjects in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1216753\/\">Gary Hustwit<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.objectifiedfilm.com\/\">Objectified<\/a>&#8221; (a 2009 documentary on industrial design).<\/p>\n<p>Here are Dieter&#8217;s ten principles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good design is innovative<\/li>\n<li>Good design makes a product useful<\/li>\n<li>Good design is aesthetic<\/li>\n<li>Good design makes a product understandable<\/li>\n<li>Good design is unobtrusive<\/li>\n<li>Good design is long-lasting<\/li>\n<li>Good design is thorough down to the last detail<\/li>\n<li>Good design is environmentally friendly<\/li>\n<li>Good design is as little as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I enjoyed these principles so much that I even made it into desktop wallpaper for my computers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Good-design-is...-1440x900.png\">MacBook Pro 1440&#215;900<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Good-design-is...-2560x1440.png\">Apple Cinema Display 2560&#215;1440<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes when I am feeling creatively stifled I reveal my computer desktop and look at the ten principles for inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about Dieter Rams via my frequent reading about Apple design methodology. I love his &#8220;ten principles for good design&#8221;. I first started studying Dieter when I learned about a book called &#8220;Less and More: The Design Ethos of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/2011\/02\/dieter-rams-ten-principles-for-good-design\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10,8,11],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-design","tag-dieter-rams","tag-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billhiggins.us\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}