Mason. Hello Design World: A visual web design guidebook for developers

Design by numbers, 2017. — 156 p.You open Photoshop and stare at the blank screen. You click around, making rectangles but it doesnt look right, and it doesnt feel right. This isnt the first time. Youve tried teaching yourself design and started small practice projects. But you always second guess your work because you dont have the proper background. So even when you do make progress, you question whether it looks good.
Youve learned the basic lessons that everyone advises. Hot and cold colors, mixing font families and types, everything. But there seems to be a massive leap from there to producing original and great looking designs. You can play around with Photoshop or HTML but dont really know why youre doing what youre doing.
You feel stuck, asking yourself:
- Should I draw everything out with pencil and paper or start with Photoshop?
- Should I picture a design in my mind first, then move to Photoshop?
- Or should I open Photoshop and play around until something nice comes out?
- It all leaves you wasting endless afternoons spent cursing your own design work.
When youre a designer that wants to learn programming there are so many choices of how to start. There are websites and courses that teach programming for complete beginners and intermediates. But what about if youre doing it the other way around, a programmer that wants to learn design?