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Posted by James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Designing for non Designers

I know I'm more of a developer than a designer. So, I'm finding that with most of my project that I'm working on that I'm getting super bogged down with the layout of items and it still looks pretty poor when I'm finished.

Do people have tips for not getting bogged down with layout and design(especially for someone who prefers development over design)?

1 Answer

jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points
jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points

This is the story of my life, haha.

You could check through the many design and UX/UI courses the TeamTreehouse offers here.

You could also use some HTML/CSS/JS frameworks that offer extensive layouts and prewritten code.

  1. Bootstrap
  2. Semantic UI
  3. Flat UI
  4. Zurb Foundation

Just to name a few.

Hope this helps!

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Currently trying Foundation. Hoping to get to the point that the site doesn't look like some generic site. I do well enough when given a design doc to work from. I have looked at the design courses in the past, but the ones I've looked at feel like they assume you're artistic to begin with and have all of the specific Adobe tools.