Design, SEO, the Creative Underclass, and a Resonant Middle Path

Aside from the natural flow of these three topics, it's interesting to see the parallels between resonant word choice and resonant design choice. As far as Google is concerned, both choices are only measurable by A/B tests to see what the masses think of a simple parallel choice. But where does innovation fit into that scenario? If the only known current choice is only between a slow horse and a fast horse, how do you get a majority to accept the feasibility of an airplane? How would testing really capture fundamental differentness, where traffic might not speak towards all possibilities of improved comprehension, efficiency, and function but rather identify the most well-tread path?

People tend to self-divide into visual and text preferences, and what that could mean is that there's a natural middle ground between Flash and words. The design elements can be used to help funnel visual learners into their natural playground, while those of us who are drawn to text can happily go play in our natural environs. Like blogs.