"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."
Tools and software have become easy to learn, but technical proficiency alone does not produce outstanding design. Taste is the decisive skill that enables designers to recognize why a design succeeds and to make choices that improve outcomes. Taste can be developed through deliberate study and practice. Analyze enduring designs by breaking them into typography, layout, color, and component decisions. Imitate strong examples, practice applying constraints, iterate on solutions, and seek feedback to refine judgment. Regularly exposing the eye to high-quality work and deconstructing its choices accelerates growth in design taste.
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