{"id":17,"date":"2018-01-16T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phpstack-338466-1089682.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2018-01-24T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:38:53","slug":"design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyclarke.website\/blog\/design\/","title":{"rendered":"Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a recent interview and getting the feedback “we need someone who is a bit more experienced on actual design”, it got me wondering. What is\u00a0actual design<\/em>? How do you define design<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I tried googling<\/a> it and that didn’t help. I didn’t get much further with different search strings; they were all coming back with the same, fantastic resources. Websites like Udemy<\/a>, Codecademy<\/a>, Freecodecamp<\/a> and Wix<\/a>\u00a0are great for teaching you and providing you with the tools and the knowledge to create websites but my question remained unanswered.<\/p>\n

You hear and read a lot about people who are\u00a0naturally talented <\/em>artists\/poets\/musicians\/writers etc. and it must be so easy for them because they are\u00a0naturally talented<\/em>. Design, like writing\/signing\/playing an instrument, is a skill. Skills should be practiced, and practiced and practiced. Either way, I’m not ‘naturally talented’ and I’m very under-practiced! So where to start?<\/p>\n

I kept searching and eventually I stumbled across this gem<\/a>. It taught me more in the 4 minutes of going through the website than the 4 days of head scratching and reading different articles on ‘proportion’, ‘composition’, ‘colour meanings’ and ‘assessing the mood of a typeface’.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Thomas<\/a>‘ web design in 4 minutes<\/a> is a great resource and teaches some fundamentals about design and how to get the most out of your content. I think it does a lot more than just making “it look attractive, professional, or at least\u00a0decent<\/em>\u00a0to look at.”I hope you find it as useful as I did.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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