--- title: Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team | daily.dev description: Brad Frost shares his reaction to Backyard Designers, a site that gamifies well-known designers as draft-able characters. He expresses mild discomfort with the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/backyard-designers-draft-your-dream-design-team-trhckyr82 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team | daily.dev og:description: Brad Frost shares his reaction to Backyard Designers, a site that gamifies well-known designers as draft-able characters. He expresses mild discomfort with the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/backyard-designers-draft-your-dream-design-team-trhckyr82 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TrhckyR82.png og:image:alt: Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team **[Brad Frost](https://daily.dev/sources/bradfrost)** · 1 min read · 9 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Brad Frost shares his reaction to Backyard Designers, a site that gamifies well-known designers as draft-able characters. He expresses mild discomfort with the pedestal-placing nature of such projects, appreciating the parody site Brokeass Designers more. He advocates for communal and collaborative culture over hierarchical celebration of individuals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > I'd keep the draft finite with something other than follower counts, because they turn community back into a popularity contest. **@kierancodes** · 0 upvotes > Why is your nav menu on the right? 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