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If you’re like me, looking at your own design work from a few years ago can often result in some laughable or even cringe-worthy moments. Design styles have been steadily evolving and most of us can’t help but be affected by these changes. Who among us hasn’t piled on the cheesy Photoshop layer effects, all the while thinking the result was downright awesome?

However, some of us are a little slower to evolve than others. Today we’ll be taking a walk down memory lane and looking at five design trends that used to be super cool, but now simply tend to make your design look outdated and even ugly. If you’re currently still stuck on these trends, it might be time to move along! We’ll help you out with some modern alternative practices that you can use to bring your design skills into 2012 in a hurry.

Let’s Make Fun of Design

We designers tend to take ourselves far too seriously. A post like this could easily lead to derogatory finger pointing and superiority complexes, but let’s go ahead and admit up front that we’ve all flirted with at least a few of these trends, many of us have jumped on board every single one of them.

The only way to escape this fact is to be a new designer, then all you’re doing is jumping on the trends of today. Don’t worry, you won’t regret or perhaps even acknowledge these decisions for at least another three to five years.

Tacit knowledge is contrasted with explicit or propositional knowledge. Very loosely, tacit
knowledge collects all those things that we know how to do but perhaps do not know how to
explain (at least symbolically). The term “tacit knowledge” comes to us courtesy of Michael
Polyani, a chemical engineer turned philosopher of science. This biographical detail is not
incidental, for Polanyi emerged from his laboratory with the news that the philosophers had
scientific practice all wrong: their account of how science proceeds was massively weighted
toward the propositional, encoded, formulaic knowledge that is exchanged between
laboratories, and almost totally ignorant of the set of skills that are required to actually work
in one of those laboratories.
Polanyi’s motivation is that we recognise the importance of this second, embodied
(and hence “personal”) sort of knowledge, and that we collapse the hierarchy that sees handson
skills and unwritten rules neglected and devalued, whilst the propositional report is
privileged. Tacit knowledge is messy, difficult to study, regarded as being of negligible
epistemic worth. Proper knowledge exists in propositional form (which is, conveniently,
much easier to study).
Is a fact the type of thing that could travel without being written down, or otherwise
symbolically encoded? For those working with a narrow conception of “fact” that excludes all
but propositional formulations, tacit knowledge is (necessarily) not the type of thing that
could act as a conduit or vehicle for travelling “facts.” But those who want to argue in this
way will need a new word to describe what it is that travels when the technologies of early
modernity spread across Europe. The growth of material culture effectively demonstrates that
facts about how to make cement, mould and fire porcelain, cut stone, hew oak, and so on,