[bmelton]

Glad to see this as a common experience.

I routinely tell my co-founder that design, for me, is constantly iterating until it doesn't suck. The only designs I'm very happy with are the ones that are extremely minimalist (my own blog, my wife's site), and those are the ones in which I'm JUST trying to present the content, and even those end up with iterating towards 'stark' until I have to put something back on the page. Then I call it done.

The other common adage between Steve and I, whenever he doesn't like something, is that I'll tell him to 'give it time.' Sometimes, he grows to love the thing he hated, and sometimes, it evolves into something much better.

Again, I am appreciative of those designers who can just throw something down that looks awesome on the first or second try, but at least I'm getting to the point that the average wireframe isn't better than my best efforts.