Novice designers often spend months crafting complete layouts only to recognize their work has been circling around the same bad decisions. The text is cramped, font combinations are clashing, and the composition has zero anchor point, but each new page is destined to repeat those same mistakes. This is because we have been practicing solely […]
Showing someone your design work too early can be an awkward experience. They tell you it is pretty. They tell you something isn’t quite right. What they are telling you is that you haven’t made a decision yet, and what they need to tell you is: What can you change? For a beginner, feedback only […]
Developing a design practice habit that can survive your busiest days doesn’t mean finding the perfect block of time, nor does it mean waiting until you’re feeling particularly inspired. Instead, it’s about setting your practice up to be small enough to be repeatable, and specific enough to be meaningful. Often, when we think about improving […]
Learning the basic skills of design without resorting to random trial and error can start off feeling very strange when you are a beginner. You start excited about the prospect of making something, and then you’re moving boxes and playing around with fonts and colors and have no idea why you’re doing any of it. […]
