{"id":1496,"date":"2010-02-19T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2010-02-19T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:54:04","slug":"good-design-bad-design-using-virtues-to-guide-us-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Good Design &#038; Bad Design: Using virtues to guide us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is good design? A combination of aesthetics &amp; ethics and exhibits virtues writes Marty Nuemeier in The Designful Company. Here are the virtues as they break out for good and bad designs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Generosity<\/li>\n<li> Courage<\/li>\n<li> Diligence<\/li>\n<li> Honesty<\/li>\n<li> Substance<\/li>\n<li> Clarity<\/li>\n<li> Thriftiness<\/li>\n<li> Wit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bad Design<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Selfishness<\/li>\n<li> Fear<\/li>\n<li> Laziness<\/li>\n<li> Deceit<\/li>\n<li> Pettiness<\/li>\n<li> Confusion<\/li>\n<li> Apathy<\/li>\n<li> Wastefulness<\/li>\n<li> Stupidity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Based on the above here are 3 things I need to do or build<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Write a virtue into a creative brief. Choose 2 or 3 good virtues from the list that a particular design should go for &amp; write it in the creative brief. Choose 1 bad virtue &amp; write that in as a one to avoid.<\/li>\n<li>Build <a href=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?page_id=1138\">Issue Boards<\/a> that pull from these virtues as concepts in the structured diagram.<\/li>\n<li>Use this language in critiques.\u00a0 Beyond just using the basic principles of design learned in my design 101 class (balance, unity, focus, rhythm, proportion) bring these good and bad virtues into the discussion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from page 78 of The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation<br \/>\nby Marty Neumeier<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/?page_id=1138\">Issue Boards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designlessbetter.com\/blogless\/posts\/justice-as-a-design-virtue\">Justice as a Design Virtue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1162\/desi.2010.26.1.95?cookieSet=1&#038;journalCode=desi\">Beyond Duty and Virtue in Design Ethics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orange.eserver.org\/issues\/2-4\/dfukumoto.htm\">Humanistic Virtues in Information Graphics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is good design? A combination of aesthetics &amp; ethics and exhibits virtues writes Marty Nuemeier in The Designful Company. Here are the virtues as they break out for good and bad designs. Good Design Generosity Courage Diligence Honesty Substance Clarity Thriftiness Wit Bad Design Selfishness Fear Laziness Deceit Pettiness Confusion Apathy Wastefulness Stupidity Based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tibetantailor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}