How to Recognize a Well-Designed Digital Product

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The concept of taste is an individual matter. While it may be easy to say whether something is nice, we might find it more difficult to justify such an opinion. Nowadays, the lines between “pretty” vs “ugly” have become more blurred and less relevant. Do we now pay more attention to whether a product is useful? In this article I’ve tried to identify the most important traits of well-designed digital products and give you some examples which you might want to bear in mind while designing yours.

Good design is always simple

A good design is always a working solution that is as simple as possible. Research shows that we trust in nice products and we buy services and acquire things that can surprise us in ways that transcend their aesthetic qualities. Besides being useful, they simply allow us to enjoy the fact that we use them.

We can’t measure or determine whether something is well-designed just by considering one factor alone. We need at least a few if not several variables that will allow us to rate a product as hot or not.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery