Websites to gain inspiration on how to make my designs
Hi, I'm an aspiring Fullstack Developer and I want to start learning how to make great looking web designs, but I absolutely struggle, idk how to make things look great, are there any websites you'd recommend that either give good insight on how to make great designs or straight up pages that gather all sorts of designs from specific projects a bit like Dribbble?
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It's not just about web designs but also media like graphic design, posters, game covers, movies... etc anything you can get creative inspiration from. But yea like you were saying Dribbble is popular, Behance, Awwwards, Pinterest...
Also a bit of unasked for advice but you're going to wear yourself too thin trying to learn design. Design & Fullstack is a tall order
My advice: pay a cheap freelancer to do some mediocre designs for you, or go on themeforest or some other template site and copy their templates
okay so as someone trying to be a fullstack dev when freelancing, and a frontend oriented dev working in a company, you're saying that learning to design as well is a bit too much? in that case, I guess I do need to either find a designer to make my templates, or expect my clients to come with their own designs?
Yea in my opinion it's too much unless you really have the drive to learn it for years concurrently with everything else. And you know what they say about jack of all trades (master of none...). Not that it's not possible to be good at it all, but yea...
You can either collaborate with designers, have the client bring their own, or get a template. Probably most realistic option imo is having a template; client won't want to coordinate with another freelancer probably and you subcontracting to a designer is more work for you + more money
But up to you how you want to handle it / proceed of course I'm not that experienced so these are just my opinions. your mileage could very well be different and the best way to learn is by doing and seeing what works and what doesn't 🙂
But from my limited experience even doing just frontend + design is pretty challenging
that's fair tbh, but idk why some people told me that I needed to learn design because most of the time, clients don't have any design, or let's say I wanna change an already existing website, how can I know how to make it better?
Knowing some design helps for sure if you're doing frontend development; it complements really well. I guess I'm just coming from the perspective of, like, design is its own career path so don't expect to get good at design, frontend dev, and backend dev, + hosting + client communication etc etc quickly
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Design can be a science as much as an art, there’s definitely some hard and fast rules around spacing and hierarchy that can help you know where to start. I would enroll in some courses with a set curriculum so you’re not having to come up with your own.
It’s hard to set a curriculum or a syllabus when you don’t know what you don’t know.
How about books? I heard some web design books were good
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https://youtu.be/LJeNvGAc7Dg?si=-hX8TTlWnB_ca0Zq
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