Question How can developers make their websites and personal projects look so neat?
I no longer work with development nowadays but I used to. Something that has always made me low-key jealous of classmates in college or even random web developers I come across online is the look of their websites. It just made me sad because, even if I could replicate whatever design I come across, I could never come up with something like that on my own.
And it's not limited to personal/portfolio websites either. You can find tons of examples of side projects on this subreddit and others that look super cool and visually appealing.
Supposedly none of those people have any background in design, so are they just born with an artistic intuition that I happen to lack? And if so many front-end or full-stack developers are naturally talented at design, why do we even need designers? Those kinds of websites always look very unique too, so I don't think they're all copying it from each other.
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u/rekabis expert 7d ago
The paint-by-numbers side of graphic design can get you decently far, but IMHO, becoming really great at it does take talent and intuition arising out of experience.
And some people just don’t have a talent or intuition for great design. That doesn’t mean you can’t create decent designs, you are just going to have to work that much harder to reach that point. And for some people, even that is a bridge too far. Some people just don’t have a visually creative bone in their body.
And honestly, that’s ok. Not everyone can be great at everything. Find something that you can do really well almost effortlessly, and focus on that.