My thoughts on ruining a great design

A design, to me, is meant to be unique to itself yet also simple so that everybody can understand the point you get across. Street signs for example pop out from the norm with vibrant colors such as red or yellow, and normally consist of all capital letters in order to keep attention of the drivers; STOP signs are the best example of this. Other designs such as billboards or posters make sure that they show just enough to keep the viewers interested instead of too much or too little to draw them away, this is why some company's succeed over others. Nowadays it is far too easy to ruin a design that rides on the thin line of decency, but as long as the problems are addressed and fixed any design can be saved.