Advice to someone who wants to gain okay design skills?

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Study golden ratio, hierarchy, flow… fundamental and timeless design priniciples. Then look at work you appreciate (online or in print) and find the principles at work as your explore. Understanding “why” something appeals to you and is “good” helps you as you work towards being a good designer.

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Design books might be helpful to teach you the basics about appropriate scale and proportions, typography, and basic color theory. There’s a bunch of titles out there that are featured in standard foundation classes.

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Look into design pieces you think are nice and try to replicate it with your hard skills. Copy first. Copy a lot. Learn how to do the stuff you think it's cool.

When it's time to create your own designs, use the things you learned by copying and create your own designs.

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