Sometimes I find myself staring at a blog design for long periods of time, but I still can’t figure out how to make it better. This use to frustrate me to no end, because I believe that a design is never finished and you can always make it better.

Now it doesn’t really bother me anymore. My new problem is I can’t stop thinking about how I can make a design better even though I just made changes to it a little while before. What I did was I applied a technique I picked up a while ago, but never thought of using it in web design. The technique is very simple in itself, but what it does is it takes the problem and changes how you look at it. Just this simple change can make ideas on how you can improve your blog design pour out of your head.

So what is the technique? It’s simple. Just ask yourself this question “How can I make this worst?” This question is much easier to ask then “How can I make it better?” because chances are you have already exhausted all the options that came to your head already asking that. Here is an example of it in practice:

How can I make my sidebar worst?
I could make it harder to scan. I could make it harder to find things. I could bunch all the sections together. I could use a color scheme that doesn’t emphasize the important parts.

If you take all this and work backwards you will get the things you can focus on in order to make your sidebar better. For example, you could make it easier to scan, make it easier to find things, split the sections up better, and use a color scheme that emphasizes the important parts of the sidebar.

Just take this question and apply it to areas you want to improve in your blog design in order to get ideas going. If you have any good tips to think of ways to improve a blog design, feel free to write a comment.

有時我發現自己長時間凝視著一個博客設計，但仍然無法弄清楚如何才能讓它變得更加完美。這經常給我帶來無窮無盡的苦惱，因為我相信，一個設計是永遠不會完成的，你總是可以使其更臻完美。

現在，它真的再也不會那么困擾我了。我的新問題是，盡管我不久前剛剛對一個設計做了幾處更改，我仍不能停止思考如何才能讓它變得更加完美。我所做的就是應用了一個技巧。這個技巧是前一陣子（不久前）剛剛學到的，但從來沒有想到過把它用到網頁設計上。該技巧就其本身而言非常簡單，但它卻能解決問題以及改變你看問題的方式。就是這個簡單的改變可以使如何能改進博客設計的想法從你的頭腦中涌現出來。

那么，這個技巧是什么呢？它非常簡單。僅僅問問你自己這個問題：“我怎樣才能使這個設計糟糕透頂呢？”就好了。這是個更容易問的問題，然后在問“我怎樣才能使它更好呢？”。因為你可能早已用盡了所有涌現到你的頭腦中早已那么問的選項。這里是它在實踐中一個例子：

如何使我的工具欄（側邊欄）糟糕透頂呢？

我可以使它更難掃描。我可以使它更難搜索到東西。我可以把各個部分堆積到一起。我可以使用一種色別法來不突出（強調）重要部分。

如果你采取這一切，和反方向工作，你就會把注意力放到那些東西上，從而把工具欄作得更好。例如，您可以使其更易于掃描，使它更容易搜索到東西，你可以把個各部分更好地劃分開，以及使用色別法來突出（強調）工具欄（側邊欄）的重要部分。

為了使想法付之于現實，請使用（記住）這個問題，并將其應用到你的博客設計中你想改進的地方。如果你在改進博客設計上有任何能想出好的方法的訣竅，請隨意寫篇評論。