Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Simplification Is the Key to Good Design

Designers aim for their products to offer more and more to their given consumers. This can lead many designers to create overly complicated and over-designed products. Rawsthorn describes how the features of these products can actually become more of an annoyance rather then be helpful to their users. I agree with Rawsthron that in many cases the original design of a given product is most likely the best. I think that simplification is the key to great design. No matter how great looking your espresso machine looks, if you cant figure out how to turn it on then what is the point? (See original article here)

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