SEOmoz | How to Ruin a Web Design
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Design
As a professional web designer I've noticed a consistent trend in the majority of the projects I've worked on: The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process.
Group intelligence is multiplicative when idiots are involved - combining a half-wit with another half-wit does not result in a full-witted person, it results in a quarter-witted person (1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4). Combining a full-witted individual with a half-wit still only yields a half-wit. The more of these "wrong kinds of people" you have involved in the process, the worse things get.
I've created two graphs to help illustrate this trend.
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The RSS Vector File
A few days ago I was looking to use the common RSS arcs and dot design to create a slight variation. I imagine a lot of designers borrow from this common image to invoke the idea in a new graphic. I've done this before, but never saved in a nice neat way to re-use it. As I began to re-create the vector paths for the common RSS icon I thought, "I bet someone else has created this and put in out there." I was half right-- a tutorial.
I'm sure someone has the file available out there on the interwebs, but I couldn't find it at that moment.
