How To Ruin A Great Design

     There are plenty of ways to mess up a great design. While I agree with Alice Rawsthorn's article on how such mistakes are made, I think she neglected to mention how to avoid making these mistakes. I would say that the way to prevent such a travesty from happening is simple. Make everything have a meaning. Don't put anything into a design if it doesn't help solve the proposed problem. This goes for creating new designs as well as updating old ones. Every element in a design should have a function that is necessary. The context of the design should be apparent without someone needing to explain it.