Video · Approx. 40 min

How to Think Like a Visual Designer

Steve Schoger · YouTube Free Beginner

Schoger walks through the mindset behind good visual decisions rather than just the rules, showing how a designer looks at a screen and decides what to change. It helps you develop the eye that lets you spot your own mistakes. A good complement to the rule lists once you want to understand the why.

Good design is a series of small deliberate decisions, learnable by anyone
Training your eye to notice problems is half the work
The same few principles apply whether you are building or reviewing

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The question it answers

I'm not a designer, how do I make my product not look terrible?

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