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 That said, books are getting a little dated and online is getting a little, well, garbage. You might want to start looking for communities instead of sites or articles, though there’s risk there too.
One idea might be to look up job postings and use that as a jumping off point to do some research on terminology and responsibilities, which can help focus your searches if you set out to try and understand the ask from each post and learn more about what you don’t know.