"Designers often spend time learning tools, shortcuts, and workflows. Today, those tools are easier than ever to pick up. Anyone can learn Figma in a matter of weeks, and AI is further lowering the barrier. But tools don't make a designer great. What separates the average from the exceptional is taste, the ability to see why a design works and to make decisions that elevate your own work."
"Taste is a skill, and like any skill, it can be built and improved on. Here's how to sharpen your eye and grow your taste as a designer. 1. Study What Already Works Great design leaves clues. Look at websites, posters, apps, and products that stand the test of time. Break them down. Look at the components that make the design work: the typography, layout, and colours. Check out my article for websites you can use to find great designs"
Tools, shortcuts, and workflows are increasingly easy to learn, and AI lowers barriers, but tool proficiency alone does not create great designers. Taste—the judgment to see why a design works and to make elevating decisions—distinguishes exceptional work. Taste is a skill that can be developed through deliberate practice. Study enduring websites, posters, apps, and products; deconstruct their typography, layout, color choices, and component relationships. Observe patterns and constraints, copy with intent, iterate designs, solicit critique, and expose the eye to broad visual examples. Repeated analysis and mindful application of observed principles sharpen visual judgment and growth.
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