If you follow delicious hotlist, you'll find some of the unusable-but-pretty designs he mentions... but you'll find more of the pretty-but-usable ones.
The usable get rewarded for their usability by being used.
The usable get rewarded for their usability by being used.
Thanks for throwing this perspective man. Now I know I really should stop caring about CSS Galleries and 'make it pretty designer gatherings'
A designer's true reward is 'used'.