Kategorie: Visualisierung

I found this nice post about „Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design“:

Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colors and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?

As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered was good design. (Sometimes they are referred as the ‘Ten commandments’.) […]

Ten principles for good design:

1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design makes a product understandable
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is thorough down to the last detail
9. Good design is environmentally-friendly
10. Good design is as little design as possible

Now I am baffled:
Leaving out innovation and aesthetic or even thorough down to the last detail I ask myself…

• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect useful?
• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect unobtrusive?
• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect honest?
• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect long-lasting?
• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect environmentally-friendly?
• Is iOS 7 frosted glass effect as little design as possible?

I think NO!

Why do I blog this? I think iOS 7 frosted glass effect ist no good design. And I am on a crusade to prove it since the first pictures of this fancy stuff appeared on Apple’s website.