Every rule of thumb in one place

Posted by hts | January 30, 2008 .

I have stumbled today upon a great site called RulesOfThumb.org
As the name says, it is a database of user-submitted “rules of thumb” - that is, the supposedly-best guidelines in every domain. Being submitted by users, you cannot 100% rely on the “rules” there, but at least it makes a funny read to browse through each category and read at least the “featured rule”.
While being a potentially useful site, if users keep submitting rules and grow the database, I have to say that the current design really sucks. I mean, the fonts are difficult to read, colors aren’t in the happiest combination and the logo is …well, I wouldn’t call it a (”brand able”) logo. Besides, the layout is way too narrow, giving an overall feeling of “burdened”, “overcrowded”, etc.

Anyway, just ignore the lacking design and go read some rules of thumb.