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		pavs on Dec 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbour... Listen, a designer spent 1 month painstakingly criticizing and pulling apart smashing magazine (a very famous designer/developer's blog) website's new design: http://www.awayback.com/smashing-magazine-realigned/ Designers are like that. Give them enough time they will find some mistakes in your work and brag about it. As a designer/developer I think I speak for myself and most design community. Chances are, some designer out there finds your favorite, best work; repulsive and ugly. I can bet on it.

unalone on Dec 18, 2009 [–]

Tim's criticisms weren't at all small nitpicks. That's Design 101. I'm not a designer and I noticed the same things he did.

While it's true that designers thrive in critique, this simply was not an impressively-designed site.

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