What is good design and how do we separate a good design from bad design?
Good design must be useful, simple to use, easy to understand and functional. It also has to have a purpose. It has to be aesthetic, pleasing, and easy.
There are thousands of examples of bad designs. Like over-complicated phones, furniture that is uncomfortable and useless kitchen supplies. “Good design enables honest and effective engagement with the world” (Rawsthorn, Alice) A good design has to be honest. It has to provide the services that it offers and it has to have no unexpected surprises. There is nothing worse than a product that can’t keep it’s promises. It has to have truth, and be reliable. It also has to be long lasting. A good product should last for a long time.
Google Home can be found in millions of households these days. The smart speaker is developed by Google and is designed to provide services by voice commands such as make calls, turn on and off vices, set alarms and reminders, and can give you information from the internet like weather reports and recipes. This has become a global hit and helps make a much more efficient household around the world.
What makes Google Home a good design is that it is easy to understand and use, it is efficient and useful and it provides a service. It is also designed in a way that fits most home with subtle colours like white and gray. Good design for me is also innovative, it’s new and it’s helpful. Google Home has the power to fascinate. It is unlike anything else and provides a service that works so well, and therefore it becomes such a good product design. Google is a big brand and is therefore designed to sell. With Google, good design becomes somewhat of a given. You expect a certain product from a big brand like Google, because your expectations are high, and with Google Home it’s so easy and functional that you can not go wrong. It gives you exactly what you want and is designed for you to use the easiest thing there is, your voice. No buttons, no remotes, just voice control. It is also designed to look like a regular speaker and it is so small that it is portable, which is great for traveling and very convenient. It is modern, and is meeting all the criteria of what a good design should be. It is really smart, and that is above all what should caracterize a good product.
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