Designer-itis. Do you have it?

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Although this article is primarily about designing websites, I found the paralells with floral design projects uncanny.

How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve

As a professional web designer I've noticed a consistent trend in the majority of the projects I've worked on: The more time that is spent dissecting, analyzing, and critiquing a design by the wrong kinds of people the worse that design gets. The same trend applies to the number of people involved in the design process.

Be sure to check out the hillarious charts.

"Designer-itis" is my made-up disease that designers suffer from when they've been staring at something for way, way too long. Let a few people mull over your design for a few hours and watch it spread like ebola.

Yep, and the disease seems to show up on the busiest days.

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