Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

Earlier this year, I saw Gary Hustwit&#x27;s documentary about Rams. Rams is arguably one of the most influential designers of the last century. His lessons on design are valuable for software engineers and others.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hustwit.com&#x2F;rams" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hustwit.com&#x2F;rams</a>

I extended it to engineering and marketing fields: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neil.computer&#x2F;notes&#x2F;good&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neil.computer&#x2F;notes&#x2F;good&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s a stretch, these principles are just extremely abstract and perhaps even non-actionable; the devil is in the details :-).

I finally managed to overcome the objections of Mrs VR46 and order some Vitsoe shelving for my office - she thought it was ugly - but after a few months (arguably 10 years) she changed her mind completely and thinks they’re great. I wish I would always have had the money to buy long-term, because you get more satisfaction AND spend less money.

Apple is perhaps the continuator of Diet Rams philosophie of design. Jonathan Ive was totally a fan of the German designer Rams. You can really feel it in the simplicity of Apple products.<p>I am a big fan also even if less gifted.

&quot;Good design is invisible&quot; Donald A. Norman - The Design of Everyday things<p>I have been reading this book for a while and the 10 points in this article seem so much on the surface only with no depth. It&#x27;s probably about marketing more than design principles.

Here is an interesting view on the revolution of Dieter Rams design principles . <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nXwpn90Gdec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;nXwpn90Gdec</a>

Power sockets in the photo are not easily accessible. Poor design.

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11. Good design is expensive<p>A base model of their chair is GBP 3245 (USD 4200).

I haven&#x27;t found empirical evidence if the functionality of these Braun products were compromised by his aesthetic choices or not. i.e. were these actually good products at the time, or did they only look good in your living room? Does anyone have data on this?

The speakers look nice but those shelfs will get old quickly, they bend under the wait of books and have the cheap look of a grocery store. If ur into design pay a carpenter for bespoke shelfs.