Summary-Good Design

Accompanied by quick development of the digital medium market, large number of digital products that fail to meet consumers or satisfy the needs of business.  Is there a criteria framework or some way of evaluating good could effective design and the problem could be solved?  As a matter of fact, from 1949to 1955, good design program successful but just only focused on narrow selection of good designs thereby neglected majority of products representing technological change.  Some products was designed by form and function, but in isolation from its use. The designer didn’t consider context of use by daily life.

Now, good design is user own experience or performance such as useful, usable, desirable, which is really important in design.  As a good design not just show from the visual appearance of products, but also engage the user including the humanizing technology, human experience and so on. The author, Buchanan, who trusts a product has content(what is its use?) and purpose(why useful for me?).  He advices the designers need to build consumers’ trust, such as product must be usable, understand needs from the clients, limitations of users.

The design should usability with creating desirability, desirability plays an important and often decisive role in product selection, selecting one product to compete another. It also should relative with marketing experts and add cultural expressions.

In short, Usefulness, usability and desirability play a central role in good design for websites and all digital products.