CHAPTER 4
REASSURANCES
Dear reader: I have been working on design and websites for around 20 years now and, without fail, this is my mental dialogue on every new project:
“crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap . . . yes!”
Sometimes it’s not a “yes!” — sometimes it’s a “maybe?” But the initial “crap” is always, always there.
Design work may never feel easy, especially when you first start out. Your first sketches and mock-ups are more likely to feel terrible than good. Designing, unlike programming, is so qualitative rather than quantitative — we rely on our gut to tell us whether something looks and feels right; you will likely think that your first ...
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