Design by Fire: Design Matters

"Good design is always about usability. If something is not usable, it is also not well-designed. Good design is always about legibility. If it can't be read, it is not good design." Not that Design by Fire is necessarily the best example of this, in my oppinion the line length is too long for the font size, but he has a number of excellent points. If people like Jakob Nielson would read books like the Elements of Typography and speak to designers in their own language the web would be a better place.