A Design Primer for Engineers

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Good design manages to both showcase the best of engineering efforts while simultaneously hiding them from the user.

This reminds me of the documentary, "Objectified": there is a complex relationship between "how it looks" with "how it works" for any given product.

(Seemingly, there has been more interest on "design"-focused start-ups, such as: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664034/a-new-vc-model-that-turn...)

Also a reminder of Dieter Rams's principles[0], notably regarding usefulness, understandability and honesty.

Anyone else thrown by the use of 'design' to mean just external look and experience of a product? Software internals are designed too.

As and by the assumption that all "engineers" are software engineers.

So are buildings.