Learning Design for Developers?
Do you have to be artistically talented to be a successful developer?
If you know what looks good when you see it…
…and you know what looks bad when you see it…
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…but you have difficulty visualizing how it should look…
How much of that can be learned, just like we take the time to learn array functions, etc.?
Does anybody have any favorite resources for developing a ‘designer’s eye’ for developers?
This is probably my biggest struggle, especially when I try practicing skills learned in tutorial environments in my own environment/sandbox.
And to be clear, I am pondering about ‘big picture’ design. I understand how to use css to set the background color (though I still have much to learn), but how does one go about finding a color scheme that looks great and fits the website. Practice and error?
