7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design
Every web developer inevitably runs into situations where they need to make visual design decisions, whether they like it or not.
Maybe the company you work for doesn’t have a full-time designer and you need to implement the UI for a new feature on your own. Or maybe you’re hacking on a side-project and you want it to look better than yet-another-Bootstrap-site.
It’s easy to throw your hands up and say, “I’ll never be able to make this look good, I’m not an artist!” but it turns out there are a ton of tricks you can use to level up your work that don’t require a background in graphic design.
Here are seven simple ideas you can use to improve your designs today.
Matthew P Munger
Life is a journey. Just keep moving.
Originally from Oklahoma City but have lived in the UK, Southern Africa, and am currently in Costa Rica. My family and I enjoy traveling and experiencing other cultures. The world and its people are amazing!
What I do
My background since 2002 is in media design with experience in videography, graphic design, and web design. Then I transitioned to a visual developer building custom designs using Webflow. Now I work at Webflow as a QA Analyst.
When I'm not building websites, I'm talking about it here, on Youtube, on Twitter, and on the Webflow forum.
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