It's a good exercise and fun to take share your ideas for redesigning a popular site. What's silly is when people arrogantly and sophomorically proclaim their designs to be far superior to the existing site.
Informed design decision towards the aesthetics or usability greatly inspires the experience. Design and redesign is subjective to the process.
Redesign is a process to undo the mistakes of past and create a better experience.
Relative focus on present designs is greatly influenced. And for a community, has its subjective sense too. Design standards another plus.
I notice Kyle Bragger listed Lobster as a web design element. I'm not familiar with the term in this context, and Google has not so far availed me. I'm curious. Would someone more knowledgeable fill me in? Thanks in advance.
He could be talking about the Lobster font which has been very popular in UI design for a while now.
Ah, sorry about that. Yes, I was referring to the font called Lobster. It's freely available in the Google Web Fonts directory, and it's already been overused to death, IMO.
a very apt note » @globalmoxie: In data viz (& design in general), decoration is fine as long as it doesn't get in the way. Decoration = good, noise = bad. @noahi #uiewamt