Ask HN: How to learn Design?
Hi,
I'm engineer by education but I'm very much passionate about design. By design, I mean visual design. How do I get started?
You can devour that book in an afternoon.
And since Typography is such an important part of design. You should read this blog post here: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/the-web-is-all-about-...
and:
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web http://webtypography.net/
Get a big stack of paper, pencils, pens, tracing paper, markers, erasers. Start drawing. Print out stuff you like. Put tracing paper on top and redraw it. Draw every day.
Take a problem in mind. A sheet and pencil. Now solve it there.
Problem can be categorizing different things, making something easier to do. Building something remarkable.
Design is not how it looks, it is how it works with everything.
Rest will come later.
This is a commonly asked question.
Here are the resources I drilled out of the threads I came across:
Type: http://www.amazon.com/Logo-Lettering-Bible-Leslie-Cabarga/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Manual-Principles-Pract... http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin... http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-...
Usability: http://www.amazon.com/Think-Common-Sense-Approach-Usability/...
Design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532616?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592533485?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159253192X?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592532349?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Web Design: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0975841963?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032145345X?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847192505?ie=UTF8&tag=... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735712069?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Sites: http://dribbble.com/ http://www.deviantart.com http://forrst.com/ http://lookslikegooddesign.com/ http://webtypography.net/toc/ http://ui-patterns.com/