Although it sounds like a postmortem, Khoi Vinh has an interesting post about good design not being enough to help Yahoo. You can’t pick up a current business magazine these days without a couple of major pieces on the importance of solid design visionaries and practices (with which I’m usually in agreement with). With Yahoo’s mostly superior attention to design, why are they unable to gain ground on Google? Is it just that Google lept so far ahead of the pack that no amount of magic would help?