Apparently, I am a design snob: I snicker at mispellings on roadside signs, glaring typos and poor grammar; I sneer at gaudy, homemade flyers and d.i.y. menus using 10+ fonts; I balk at shoddy packaging; I deride websites for poor accessibility, findability, usability and awkward navigation. Mind you: I don’t think my years of experience as a design professional make me superior to people who aren’t aware of the innumerable design rules they’re breaking; I don’t expect there will ever be a world where every single thing works well, communicates effectively and looks cool; I know there will always be people who create their websites in Frontpage, their newsletters in Publisher or Pagemaker, their signs in Powerpoint. I just wish more people could see the difference between something amateur and something well done. I know better than that, though.