Not to be an ass, but the first thing I questioned when I came to the site was "If this is the best design they could come up with, what does that mean for the

Not to be an ass, but the first thing I questioned when I came to the site was "If this is the best design they could come up with, what does that mean for the education?" Sign up and design failure aside, I question what this site will do. Design a logo in 30 minutes? Design a one-page flyer with a minimum of 5 typefaces? Those aren't exercises, those are bad practices. There's an overabundance of people who call themselves designers and not enough people who truly understand it and care about it at a depth that creates good products, not broken experiences. There's already an influx of graduates with degrees that show nothing except that they put the time in. There's an abundance of sites (ahem Awwwards, Smashing Magazine, Dribbble) that do their part to promote bad design as good design. And not to speak ill of any good designers who work for Google, but as a company they're not exactly known for it - quite the opposite. I would prefer qualified guest designers or actual professors as opposed to 'vetted' corporate employees to judge my work. I don't think people need Design 101 anymore. I think we need a place for seasoned designers and people who are making the switch from print to web or design to front-end coding to fully understand what they're getting into.