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You conflate lack of ability with lack of respect (Score:1)
(OK, I admit I just wanted to use conflate in a real sentence)
Your original statement suggests that when we say we are bad at design we also mean that we don't respect design.
Quite the opposite is true.
For the process of identifying weaknesses in your own ability to be healthy, you must also recognise and value the people that do.
I for one value design, and got knows I try my best [strawberryperl.com] to make things that don't suck. At the end of the day though, I'm just a dabbler, I consistently fail to produce work with a suf