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Good design is as little design as possible: less, but better, because it concentrates on the essentials.

Drawn from what Dieter Rams said

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

designunder our current: Good design is less, and it disappears into the hand What makes a design good?under our view: Good design is less: reduce to the essentials and leave nothing arbitrary

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What Dieter Rams actually said

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  1. Dieter Rams by

    Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to…

    Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials.

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