It’s important to train an eye for good design to develop as a designer. Here are some tips and resources to help you build this habit.
Designers are like poker players: the more hands you’ve seen, the better you play. Developing an eye for design should become your regular exercise. You’d better stick to a firm schedule to make it a habit.
For instance, I spend 30 minutes a day checking out new stuff on Dribbble and Behance, visiting the websites of my favorite studios once a week, and going through new collections of brand identity and typography once a month.
To automate this routine, I’m using a combination of browser bookmarks and the Tab Snooze extension for Chrome.
Here’s how I automated my weekly visits to design studios’ and agencies’ websites. First, I created the Studios & Agencies folder in my Google Chrome Bookmarks and filled it with bookmarks to the sites I want to revisit from time to time (the links are below). Then, I set up Tab Snooze to pop up this folder for me at noon every Friday.
That’s it. The folder appears on my display every Friday at 12:00 p.m. All I need to do is click through the links and explore new content.
Similarly, I get reminders about the other resources I chose to develop my eye for good design.
As a product designer, I regularly visit the following four categories of websites:
About the author
Aleksey Popov, product designer and maker
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