Stop Using Small Font Sizes
I don't mind small font sizes as long as you don't do anything to break zoom in the browser.<p>What is killing me a lot more lately is the trend towards extremely low contrast sites, like white backgrounds with almost-white text.  This is starting to be <i>everywhere</i> recently and it is horrible.<p>I'm sure that design looks great on your Pantone-calibrated monitor, designer, but on mine I can barely even see there are words there let alone easily read them.   Supplying a user-defined CSS or constantly highlighting paragraphs is much more painful than a zooming in with the scroll wheel or a simple gesture.<p>So I agree with the point the article is making but I think there are currently bigger fish to fry when it comes to painful design trends on the web.