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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9583033" data-attributes="member: 6790260">An excellent post overall, for which I have only one addendum on this specific part. That is, being a "good" designer here is about having good taste. Meaning there is (at least) one additional axis: being an effective designer, which is mutually unrelated to either a good designer or a forward-thinking one. An effective designer sets clear, testable goals, regularly reviews whether those goals are being met (or, at least, progress is moving toward them), and either accepts the result when it sufficiently achieves the goal, or returns to the drawing board if the goal remains stubbornly out of reach.I say this because it's quite possible for someone to have good design taste, picking concepts and ideas that are worthy of pursuit, and for that same person to be a forward-thinking designer, trying to consider what prospective audiences desire, while still producing just...really poorly-done mechanics, because they just aren't very effective at making their design goals happen in reality.</blockquote>