On learning to code as a designer

Design has this strange quality — it's invisible when it works and painfully obvious when it doesn't. After a year of building things, I'm starting to understand why.

Every week I sit down and write about one project decision — right or wrong — in plain English. It's become the most useful habit I've developed.

There's a pressure to fill every pixel. It took me a while to trust the empty parts of a layout. This is what changed my eye.