pg has a whole article about the word. "Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum be

pg has a whole article about the word. "Ugly and imaginative solutions have something in common: they both break the rules. And there is a gradual continuum between rule breaking that's merely ugly (using duct tape to attach something to your bike) and rule breaking that is brilliantly imaginative (discarding Euclidean space)."