Obviously clients can be demanding and stupid, but designers often design for themselves (frustrated artists) and not the client.

…is that design *isn’t* like eg engineering: the barriers to entry are much lower; and it’s partly about questions of taste.

Everyone’s linking to this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell – funny and all-too-true, of course. But maybe part of the problem…

@doccosmos will be around lunchtime GMT. Too busy now. Also: probably not worth it!

Later: launching new text analysis tool at my site. Now: urgent house tidying before possible buyers arrive. Oops: loads of work, too.

We should call it Abrams’ Beard: always multiply entities beyond necessity.

@dozykraut exactly!

Finally started watching Lost Season 5. Is that the sound of Ockham’s Razor shattering into little pieces?