If it’s Not Broken, Improve It!

Warning… this may come across as a rant…

Let me give you a hypothetical situation.

You have a blog.
It’s a fairly nice blog…
Your blog has about 200 loyal rss subscribers and a fair amount of daily traffic. You update it 2 to 4 times a week and each post averages over fifty comments per post. The design is a free theme that is not very well known and you customized it to fit your blog - not perfect, but fits very well.
Pretty good right?
Now you can sit back and relax, right?

No.

Never settle for the mediocre.

Always strive to improve - no matter what it is - strive to improve.
If it’s a blog, hunt down more subscribers. If it’s a web site, add more content, features, etc to obtain a larger visitors base. If it’s a hobby, strive to achieve the next level!
Always strive to improve what you have.

How does this apply to design?
Simple.

Look at one of your design works.

Is a pixel off?
Could you add some effects?
Should some be taken away?
Could the content pack a greater punch?
Is there anything that could be improved?

If your answer to any of those questions is yes, then fix it.

Never settle for the mediocre.
Always strive to improve.

There.
Got that off my shoulders…