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Okay, but lickable is still good, right?

Rules for gorgeous are particularly funny.

What's wrong with those words?

They've been used so much in ways that they shouldn't have been over the last year or two that they're starting to lose their meaning.

7 Rules for making designs that adhere to principles that have recently hit their peek of popularity.

Rule 4 - Apple's started blurring backgrounds. You should too.

I do agree with the spirit of the article, if you want text to be legible, then you should make it legible.

They're overused. Now everything is gorgeous (so by definition it's not).

Using words that are usually designed to describe fashion is appropriate. You wouldn't be caught dead with a pie chart on your dashboard. Everyone knows that donut charts are the thing.