My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
Dieter RamsRead
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
Interpretation
Good design requires attention to detail and intentionality in every aspect.
This quote emphasizes the importance of meticulousness in design. Dieter Rams suggests that every component should be intentionally considered, as thoughtful design reflects a deep respect for the user and enhances their experience. It implies that randomness or negligence in design diminishes its value and effectiveness.
In practice
In a presentation about product design, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of attention to detail.
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.
Every time I hear a recording I've made, I hear all kinds of things I could improve or things I should have done. There's always so much more to be done in music. It's so vast.
I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?
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