In Search of Good Design

Can you define "good" design? I think most of us agree that even if we don't exactly know how to define it, we certainly know it when we see it! Common attributes of good design are easy to spot, such as pleasing shape, form, color and size. Other clues include imagination, appropriateness, and perhaps even efficiency. My earliest forays into design always seemed to involve box tops. I didn't really do anything very creative with them, but somehow I felt that the inside of the top of a gift b...