[sturmdev]

This was me! I was in the same exact situation. Everything I designed looked awful, and it killed my motivation.

You can learn, but it will take years of dedicated study and practice, at least in my experience. I worked really hard to learn for about 3 years, and now I’m pretty satisfied with my side projects.

I also learned that I really enjoy design. I wouldn’t say I’m “good” at it, but I can get by. I think some people have innate talent for design, and some people (like me) don’t. But you can certainly become “good enough” through hard work in lieu of talent.

Whether or not you decide to go down this rabbit hole is up to you, but I wanted to share my experience. It is slow and difficult, but possible.

[sturmdev]

If you want to learn, here are a few tips that really helped me:

There are some basic fundamentals to start with @DesignCourse on YouTube has a few videos which cover them well.

Copy good designs. But in doing so, also dissect them and learn what makes them good. Take note of how they applied the fundamentals. This includes great apps/sites as well as UI libraries (don’t use these, learn from them).

Using UI libraries will not result in good designs unless you’re already a good designer. UI libraries exist so that good designers can make uniform designs faster, not so that bad designers can make good designs.