Do you know what makes a design good?

Is it merely an opinion, or is there something more to it? Breaking design down seems like such an abstract thing. Even the designers who are able to create thought-provoking work seem purely talented and have natural abilities that can’t really be nailed down to a process. But what if there were principles that captured why design and art worked the way that they do?

When I started Design Informer on November 2009, I planned that I would one day add a forum to Design Informer. Well, many months passed by and I kept making excuses as to why I couldn’t add a forum. I was too busy, I’ve never installed a forum, I don’t have time, yada yada. Well, the other day, I figured that I just need to sit down and do it so that’s exactly what I did.