Category Design

Dieter Rams : Ten commandments on design

Dieter Rams is a well known designer. Among his works, I like his designs for the Braun calculator the best. The design is clean and appropriate use of colour coding for key buttons like the ‘equal’ button. Here’s the key design guidelines from Dieter Rams that I got from Wikipedia . 1. Good design is [...]

Simplicity

I was thinking through about the design of a software that I am working on. One of the objective that I would want it to achieve is, Simplicity. Consider this. How many of the built-in features that comes with your mobile phone do you use on a regular basis ? 3-5 maybe. Phone, SMS, Camera [...]

Great Designs : Functional, Emotions and Why I Love Richard Sapper’s Designs

I am a huge follower of Richard Sapper’s product design. Myself, I am a proud owner of IBM Thinkpad and a Lamy Dialog 1. Both exhibit very clean lines and are well built as well. Lenovo, created a video featuring Richard Sapper for the launch of their X300 series. And I think, Richard Sapper say [...]