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đź’¬ UXD Quote #4
“A well-designed product isn’t well designed if the process needed to manufacture it is unrealistic or uneconomical.”
Matthew Frederick
A brilliantly conceived alternative-fuel vehicle will not succeed without the design and implementation of a refuelling infrastructure over a large geographic area. A cleverly resolved construction detail isn’t clever if it doesn’t leave room for a construction worker to manipulate the tools needed to construct it. A bridge pier that’s well engineered won’t be built without also engineering a process to excavate earth and pour concrete in the middle of a river.Â
Remember, there is often design besides the design and a well-designed product isn’t well designed if the process needed to manufacture it is unrealistic or uneconomical.
📚 Source: 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School by John Kuprenas & Matthew Frederick
đź’#1
“Isn’t it somehow paradoxical that one of the most important characteristics of a good design — its unobtrusiveness — renders it harder to notice and appreciate?”
Good design is somehow invisible, which contributes to the common perception of design as a discipline that is somehow unimportant or easy to do. It’s somehow paradoxical that one of the most important characteristics of a good design, its unobtrusiveness, renders it harder to notice or appreciate.
Bad design, on the contrary, because it is more noticeable and easier to spot, gets associated with design as a profession, contributing to the more critical view of design as a useful discipline.
đź“š Inspired by The Design of Everyday Things by Don NormanÂ
đź“ť The theory of proposition density in design
Published on 15.Dec 2023
We all know, that some logos are considered to be inspirational works of art while most of them are average at best. But have you ever wondered why?