In the Queensland Senior Design Curriculum students must describe design criteria based on the requirements of stakeholders and the principles of good design. To understand what makes design good, students must analyse how designers understand good design. They do this by exploring the ‘Ten principles of good design’ by Dieter Rams (Vitsoe 2017) and the evaluation criteria used by Good Design Australia. This learning lab collection has resources for both. The principles of good design listed in the Australia Curriculum are derived from these two resources. 

Learning Goals:

• Explore the principles of good design developed by Dieter Rams
• Identify the impact of Dieter Rams on past present and future designs
• Analyse Dieter Rams objects to identify how the principles of good design are applied
• Understand how the principles of good design can be used to develop design criteria essential for measuring the success of design ideas