Better Design or Worse Design

"Good Design": it's a common phrase, easily overlooked. Please define it....
If something was designed i.e. made with thought.
Need to ask what was the purpose of the object?
- To solve a problem without a market? e.g. building a feature for a garden
- To make individual profit? e.g. a music demo
- To answer a need in a market? e.g. to reduce packaging
- To solve problems with a potential huge new market? e.g. an eco-car

When describing design as 'good' who is to make the judgment?
Designer's use their own criteria based on their particular knowledge.
Consumer's do not know all the facts so cannot make informed judgments. Shareholders have a conflict of interest if the result of deciding their products are not good they reduce profit.
Lobbyists present one side.
Online discussion is open to censorship or litigation.
Governments have other things to do but need to play a role or who else can co-ordinate and give direction?

Maybe a less hyperbolic definiton should be of design as being better or worse. This relative description is more accurate and more flexible as new technologies and analysis comes along.

Design Brief:
Perhaps an equivalent of a 'better design wiki' can be set-up to allow products recognised as being of more value to be highlighted. If the information can be weighted in a similar way to parametric design then the display of charts based around users input can be adjusted dynamically through programming.
The debate about the criteria can continue to evolve among the 'wiki' users.

And as sometimes bad design can be more popular than its opposite what is the definition of bad design that will highlight its most toxic effect?

The criteria would not be based around design snobbery. The wiki can incorporate people's taste discussions too though that has plenty of outlets already but if there are going to be products highlighted for being especially good - then there needs to be the converse.

The intention needs to be to direct producers and consumers towards subsituting better alternatives that make a measurable improvement. But also in some cases knowing NOT to select a damaging product will probably do more good than just making a choice among the better ones.

The items discussed on the wiki could be ranked similar to a thermometer scale of 'hot or not' as trends charts in magazines.

Better Design alongside Worse Design with a visible heirarchy of items.

Even if the order is distorted by individual bias or product promotion the likelihood is that with good criteria selection the items will sort into their position fairly accurately. Even with some degree of variance the 'truth shall out'.

Does such a 'wiki' exist? If so, publicise it and start making the list