"Designers often spend time learning tools, shortcuts, and workflows. Today, those tools are easier than ever to pick up. Anyone can learn Figma in a matter of weeks, and AI is further lowering the barrier. But tools don't make a designer great. What separates the average from the exceptional is taste, the ability to see why a design works and to make decisions that elevate your own work."
"Taste is a skill, and like any skill, it can be built and improved on. Here's how to sharpen your eye and grow your taste as a designer. 1. Study What Already Works Great design leaves clues. Look at websites, posters, apps, and products that stand the test of time. Break them down. Look at the components that make the design work: the typography, layout, and colours."
Designers often focus on learning tools, shortcuts, and workflows because tools are easier to adopt than ever. Anyone can learn Figma within weeks and AI further lowers technical barriers. Tools alone do not produce great design; taste distinguishes average work from exceptional work. Taste is the ability to see why a design works and to make choices that elevate outcomes. Taste functions as a skill that can be developed through practice. Studying enduring websites, posters, apps, and products reveals design clues. Breaking designs into typography, layout, and colour components helps sharpen judgment and grow design taste.
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