Those are process elements, and the goal of them is primarily to produce a good result. A better process may have reduced the likelihood of a bad design, but t

Those are process elements, and the goal of them is primarily to produce a good result. A better process may have reduced the likelihood of a bad design, but the bad process is the meta-problem, not the problem-problem. Some design decisions really are bad in ways that are counterintuitive to a lot of designers. Reducing information density is often one of them.