Principles of good design from Paul Graham’s Taste for Makers.

• Good design is simple
• Good design is timeless
• Good design solves the right problems
• Good design is suggestive
• Good design is slightly funny
• Good design is hard
• Good design uses symmetry -> repetition & recursion.
• Good design resembles nature
• Good design is redesign
• Good design happens in chunks
• Good design is often daring