Design perspective. Dieter Rams’ 10 commandments for good design.
Good design makes a product useful. A product is bought in order to be used. It must serve a defined purpose – in both primary and additional functions. The most important task of design is to optimise the utility of a product.
The power of nothing. Voids a retrospective of nothing:
A quite exceptional event, “Vides” (Voids) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space for which they were designed.
Designer Reddit. Now that Undrln feeds link directly to the article, I can finally recommend it. It’s basically Reddit for people who dress better, or as they dub it “highlights from the world of advertising, marketing and design”. If you like anything to do with design, check it out.
The 140 jargon test. From Kent Newsome’s 10 Things That Would Make the Internet a Better Place:
If ReadWriteWeb would enact a policy strictly prohibiting the use of jargon that cannot be explained in a single Twitter posting. If you can’t describe it effectively in 140 characters, don’t talk about it. By my count, RRW has mentioned the Semantic Web 262 times and they still haven’t adequately explained what the heck it is. Other than this, RRW rocks.
In principle. I really dig the Cult of Done Manifesto. After all, it “was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.”
I’m not so big on the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship. Why? Because I couldn’t copy & paste the title directly from the site. The page shows an image for the title, even though the HTML contains the SEO-friendly but CSS-hidden text of the title. That’s not the kind of quality I aspire to.
Validation is a 16 minute long movie, so you might want to sit down for that. I really liked it. (Via Stefan Tilkov)