dots AND lines

Any designers would prefer to be different on their own sake. To be unique. However, at times when it comes to corporate clients, especially when it comes to designing a site, designers just tend to stick to certain cliché ideas without knowing. Results eventually become dull and common.

How to avoid that? Read this article from snap2objects.com. It does not provides a direct guidelines to strengthen your creative skills, but it does give a list of common ideas that poor designs have been using for ages. Worth to read, and sure to make you smile and think twice before you use it again.