Cecilie 🧙♀️I think I asked this a few months ago, but, again:
How do I learn web design? How do I learn to make websites work good and look good and feel good?
Party Cat 🆒@cvennevik Read everything you can on the topic. Meet people, ask questions. Most importantly: Do research. Observe usage, build up your empathy for the people experiencing sites and how different they are from you.
@ColinsBadIdeas Right, but how do I find my way past repetitive SEO junk to the actual useful things to read? What does "meet people" mean? What questions, beyond the ones I've already asked? And how do you research as, just, a person learning this in their own time?
And isn't this the kind of advice you give someone who wants to further develop skills they already have, and not to someone who still doesn't know, or even know *of*, the basics and fundamentals?
@cvennevik You’d be surprised how entry-level some of the suggestions are, like doing research. But your response is fair - I wasn’t very detailed.
Regarding what to read, you can start with some books: Design of Everyday Things (though Norman is a little problematic these days), Steve Krug’s books, and The Inmates are Running the Asylum and About Face by Alan Cooper all give a high-level view of roles and goals. From there, you may have a stronger lexicon for searching.