Comments on: The Roles Experience & Intuition Play in Design

By: KEEG

KEEG — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:43:53 +0000

I a natural skill set leads towards the ability to be intuitive. Though only when experience is applied to we become truly intuitive. Great article!!!

By: JCB

JCB — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:22:37 +0000

I've never been very good at the “creative origination” part of design, but I'm a real whiz at all the intuitive stuff you are talking about – color, arrangement, balance, etc. So, I figure that makes me someone who can do a competent, good-looking, user-friendly design that won't win any design awards. Frankly, I think I've ended up with the better skill set!

By: Naomi Niles

Naomi Niles — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:52:00 +0000

Nathan – You'll never know unless you try. You just might surprise yourself.

And actually, I think just recognizing good design brings you a lot of the way there. A lot of people are unable to do that much.

By: Naomi Niles

Naomi Niles — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:49:56 +0000

Thanks, Catherine!

I think design is a skill anyone can learn given enough time & effort. You may never be the best, but there's certainly a place for good enough too.

By: Nathan Hangen

Nathan Hangen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:05:55 +0000

I really wish I was a designer…or had the talent to try.

I can recognize good design, but making it happen from start to finish is not easy for me. You've got a natural talent, but you've worked hard to turn it into rockstar talent. That's awesome.

By: Catherine Caine

Catherine Caine — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:13:29 +0000

Great post, Naomi!

I wrote about something similar a while back, from the perspective of someone who has no real intuition and had to learn all those rules slowly, from books. I'm not a GREAT designer, and never will be one. But I'm not bad, either. :)