Some quotes about good design from a Germany designer Dieter Rams in documentary "Objectified":Good design should be innovativeGood design should make a product usefulGood design is aesthetic designGood design will make a product understandableGood design is honestGood design is unobtrusiveGood design is long-livedGood design is consistent in every detailGood design is environmentally friendlyGood design is as little design as possibleThis brings up a question -- what is the most important factor about good design, To lots of people, the most important is about simplicity, i.e,&...

I’m probably a bit biased – being a front-end web developer for a few years will do that – but I really enjoy writing Javascript. I’ve recently retreated from pure coding the last few months, but I got an opportunity this past week to jump back into some tasks, and it has reminded me how fun it is to dive into our[1] front-end codebase.Yes, Javascript can be surprisingly elegant yet completely infuriating, and all on the same line of code; for a long time, it remained the joke of the programming community, the deranged cousin that outuglied even the likes of PHP...

I've come to avoid using the word "Simplicity" or its variants ("Simple," &c.) It means too many different things to different people.For example, my original land-line phone was simple:It's simple by eliminating extraneous use cases. It only handles one user scenario, the one that was the most common when it was invented. If we think of the number of affordances and the number of uses, this kind of simplicity lowers the number of affordances by lowering the number of uses. I call this kind of simplicity "Economical Design."There's another kind of simple, a kind of band-aid simple. You sta...