A good article arguing against crowdsourcing design. The key takeaway:

While design sites tout the “community” aspects of their sites, the truth is that they play a winner-take-all game where work is purposefully not collaborative. The power of crowdsourcing comes from when many people working together can achieve something big, like when hundreds of people spend a few minutes each tagging museum photos through the Extraordinaries or when 50 people each contributing $50 can collectively fund an artist’s dream project through Kickstarter.

The debate goes on…