I didn't upvote you because in this specific case it is relevant. If someone's website exists to highlight design and the linked article is design-specific, I

I didn't upvote you because in this specific case it is relevant. If someone's website exists to highlight design and the linked article is design-specific, I think it perfectly legitimate to point out that the design of the site, while arguably pretty, is a usability nightmare and this site fits in that description. I'm sure it looks great on the designer's computer, but he needs to learn the painful lesson that not everyone is viewing his website on a monitor of the exact same resolution and gamma he is using(I would guess a Macbook of some type considing the gamma and resolution (laptopish) that would be required for the site to be at least somewhat reasonable to use). If he can't get that right, how can we be expected to listen to him on issues of design or UX even when that just involves him showing positive bias towards various existing designs? If the link were to the blog of some programmer who was writing about some advanced algorithm that would be a totally different situation but it isn't. And in that case we'd probably point out he totally doesn't understand big-O notation (if he clearly didn't), regardless of how useful his algorithm actually is, for similar reasons.