Has Design Become Too Hard?

Digital design is not what it used to be, we say. The fun has gone out of it. An endless deluge of frameworks and technologies has leached the creativity out of what we make and do, and replaced the joy of craft with a hellish treadmill of overly complicated tools to master.

Many of us feel this way, but is it true?

An interesting opinion piece from Jeffrey Zeldman. Turns out it is true, but it doesn’t have to be. Shocker!