It wasn't so long ago that graphic design was done by a professional with a lightboard (or, at very least, a complex piece of software that required specialized training). Now, just about anyone can publish newsletters and make flyers, and the result is often ugly/unreadable/terrifying. The same goes with web page design.
Similarly the results of amateur dabbling with Microsoft Access create problems for years after the "developer" has left since the system may still be in use. There is a definite art and science to good database design that will allow you to easily expand the systems scope and create reports to answer just about anything relevant to the data. On the other hand, bad database design results in a system that is difficult to maintain, limited in functionality, confusing to document, and will require months of conversion effort before back data can be moved to a better system.
Today, I'm trying to document a horrible Access database, and it is maddening.
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