We all agree about that. The trouble is, it can be difficult to agree on what we mean by 'well designed'. Very often we get bogged down in arguments about personal taste, whether we happen to prefer the modern or the traditional, the old or the new, rather than discussing the design itself.

This a problem that a lot of people have been struggling with and some of them have come up with a practical answer: a set of good design 'indicators'. We have used them to build the Design quality analyser.