Design

I finally made it to post 300. I'm pretending this is a big milestone for my blog. Now I'll reflect back on the last 100 posts. It took a lot longer to get to post 300 than it did to post 200. I think that's a good thing. The quantity is down a lot, and hopefully the quality is up. If my stats are any indication, then I am getting better at this blogging stuff. I mean there's a bar graph of something, and over the past year the bars are generally getting taller than the previous months. So that's probably good. Unless it's a reverse bar graph that graphs bad stuff.

This post explains the importance of design by using the difference between America and Japan as an example. The author, Kathy Sierra, says that to save your job you should learn design because it's a skill that can't be outsourced or replaced. She shows photos of an American manhole cover and a Japanese manhole cover. The American one is plain, but the Japanese one is very elaborate and detailed. This example, and a few others, help show where design makes the difference.