Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
Half of this advice hinders usability.#2.1: Reducing the opacity of your text makes it harder to read.#4: Borders help logically separate areas of an interface. Throwing in more white-space is wasteful.#4.3: Gratuitous white-space is wasteful, especially if you have limited screen real-estate (i.e., mobile).#7 is a major pet-peeve of mine which I cannot agree with. If it's a button, make it look like a button. Nothing is more confusing than a button that just looks like some text label.