Seems like there is an anecdote somewhere about how, in the early days of Google, an anonymous user would occasionally send the developers a message that simply

Seems like there is an anecdote somewhere about how, in the early days of Google, an anonymous user would occasionally send the developers a message that simply stated the number of elements (words/links/whatever) on the main page, whenever that number went up. The developers took the implicit message to heart and endeavored to keep the noise to an absolute minimum. Do you need to be a designer to realize that simplicity is a virtue?