I'm not so sure anymore. My industry is being saturated by Helvetica-designers and people with absolutely no background in traditional design, and who have abso

I'm not so sure anymore. My industry is being saturated by Helvetica-designers and people with absolutely no background in traditional design, and who have absolutely no design sensitivity for accessibility; and who fear risk because it has been so tightly coupled with their next paycheck. Anything that seems risky gets lumped into one category, because it is economical to play it safe, come what may. Two-tone, single-column, this or that. My industry is becoming hyperfashionable, and morally so. It's beyond me how so many designers I see today whore out the same pallid, lifeless sans-serif fonts, and they don't even set their font-stacks properly. So it's monocultural design, with a tyrannical twist that depends on things like CSS's !important. It's like most of you are force feeding your 11pt fonts and insipid Microsoft fonts down the world's throat. -- And you want to ask what failure is as if you don't know? It's whoever will not follow the trend, in a certain material, financial sense. Failure may be individual, but the conditions are defined by the industry in which it occurs. And honestly, all those designers/developers who are cookie-cutting their careers make failure habitual for those who actually decide to take risks and be thorough-going. We have so many designers/developers who need to make a quick buck, that their "streamlined" notion of things make it difficult for people who actually have talent to genuinely nurture that talent, because they have to compete with Frameworkers and (CSS) Foundationers. Talk about that. Failure is defined by the suffocation of talent in a capitalistic mindset.