Nice post. I think you’ve made an a good point about the difference between great designers and the rest. The way I like to look at is, if you can’t succinctly describe something to someone else, then you really don’t understand it yourself. Good designers understand what they are doing and why. ‘Gut feeling’ and ‘design instinct’ are just cooler ways of saying, ‘I can’t put my finger on why I did that way’, or worse, ‘I took a guess at it’. I’m sure a lot more people could be ‘great’ if they just spent some more time to critically analyse their own decisions.

Cheers,

Marcus.