improving your design skills?
pmjoyce: This is a constant issue for me.  I get excited by good design - it scratches a purity/elegance/zen itch in me.  Can recreate it?  No chance.  I've even had one of my sites defined by one HN user as "...like a domain parking page".[1]To loosely paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart: I can't define good design but I know it when I see it. [2]The reality is I need to engage professional designers earlier in the process but, being self-delusional, I'll always give it a bash anyway.1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=902408
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it