Good design should make things pretty. Great design should improve communication. After all, that's what design was created for – a way to visually explain a brand, concept, meaning, or data. This is why people get giddy about data visualization and infographics. They make processing complicated ideas simple, interesting and enjoyable. The above video is an example of how the designers at Wired Magazine redesigned medical test results into a format that is helpful to both doctor and patients (click the link if you want to see the non-video version). I love this redesign because it is such a great example of design at it's best, and an example of how I wish the world would use design more often. Read