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The importance of defining good design

Design principles articulate the fundamental goals that all decisions can be measured against and thereby keep the pieces of a project moving toward an integrated whole.
— Luke Wroblewski

As we enter a new year, adopt emerging technology or evolve our existing design systems, it’s valuable to look back on past design principles that continue hold true today.

I believe that by defining the ideology of good design, we can learn to be more thoughtful and responsible designers — and ultimately move toward creating a sustainable future.

Here’s a set of resources that I’ve found helpful when looking for how different companies and groups of creatives approach good product design.

Design Principles — a giant open source resource created to help you understand and create design principles
Design Principles — a helpful list of principles organized by category, collected by Jeremy Keith
Design Principles ftw — another resource compiling design principles
Tim Brown’s blog post on design principles

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