Dieter Rams's "10 Principles of Good Design"

#12. Whether a design “succeeds” or “fails” at any moment is meaningless except to whoever is experiencing it at that moment, regardless of what the designer things is “aesthetic” or “useful” or “long lasting” or principles 1-10.

#13. Design is not art, it is service. If you want to express a particular aesthetic, and only that aesthetic, you are an artist, not a designer.

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