The author somehow manages to conflate Apple, 37signals and Gnome 3 all together, then makes a case about design being a bad thing, being the latter the only un

The author somehow manages to conflate Apple, 37signals and Gnome 3 all together, then makes a case about design being a bad thing, being the latter the only unremarkable one in this aspect? Let me tell the obvious: Gnome 3 doesn't suck because it focus on design, it sucks because it has horrible design process. If it's not fulfilling user requirements, that's bad design by definition. The problem with Gnome is management. Last time I tried improving the font selector (which I think still is utterly broken for selecting weights), nobody cared. They though the only weights people need are "bold" and "italic". Now compare to the font selector on Mac and say Apple is "design dictatorship" with no regards to user requirements...