April 28, 2003: I'd swear I posted this long ago, but can't find it now. Anyhow, Why good design comes from bad design is a nice little piece about the need to leave space in your design process for failure. The author, Scott Berkun, quotes an industrial design student as saying "I don't know what a good idea looks like until I've seen the bad ones." The main point is that if you're afraid to fail, it's hard to succeed. I couldn't agree more.