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CHAPTER 3

THE PROCESS AND TRAINING YOUR DESIGN EYE

NOW THAT WE’VE CHATTED ABOUT DESIGN PRINCIPLES and the pieces of design, let’s work on the process of design. While the last few sections have thrown a lot of theory at you, these next sections are geared toward adding real-world context to what you have learned and helping you do design work.

The following sections will walk you through the parts of design from start to finish — finding inspiration, sketching your project, getting feedback, and building. We will talk about these steps in abstract but also apply them to a sample project so you can see how everything comes together.

For our sample project, we’re going to build on a theoretical home page for an open source project — a place where ...