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I had been writing about design for quite a while now, but the topic of good design is bothering me.
Here’s my problem with it.
On one hand, I feel disqualified to speak about the topic, as I wouldn’t think of myself as someone who has seen it all and therefore can have a clear conscience of knowing which designs are good.
On the other hand, good design can be such a casual statement, almost similar to someone saying they had a good day or good morning without really thinking if the day was really good.
Someone did say “good design is invisible.” Jared Spool may have come up with this idea, using air conditioning as an example to show the invisibility of design. “Until it fails,” said Bruce Mau in his book, Massive Change. “Perhaps it’s all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about,” claims Romans Mars, creator of the podcast, 99% invisible, which got its name from a quote by Buckminster Fuller, “Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
At the same time, a good design wants to be recognised, so much so that 50,000 items have received the prestigious Good…