improving your design skills?
koenbok: In my experience becoming a good designer takes as much learning as becoming a good coder. Every designer at Sofa has an unhealthy interest in composition, color and typography and studied years before getting good at it.That said, a few things that I've seen working with coders starting here that at least their recognition/understanding of great design got better by:- Hanging out with designers and discussing their work. You will find out you will sometimes understand them as hard as they do you when taking code.- Learning about typography; it's a part of design that has more universal true rules then any other aspect of it, and therefore is easier to study.- Looking at pretty stuff on a daily base. Fffound is a great place to start. But great application UI's/marketing stuff works too, if you want to keep it close to computers.- Start learning photography, and study how compositions of objects in a frame can make an image interesting.