Realising yet again that decent design takes time. Not just time spend doing it but elapsed time so that it can be subconsciously considered. I've spent the past few weeks working on a design for some new software features at work. After a couple of rounds of review meetings I think it's starting to come together. It's also starting to look less like something bolted on to the side of the product and more like an integral part. I know that time spent now considering alternatives is better than just leaping in to coding the first idea but sometimes it's hard to convince yourself that you're actually making progress when you have 1000 lines of document and lots of diagrams instead of 1000 lines of java.