Over the years, I have designed many websites. I'm not crazy about any of the design work I did. The site you are reading right now represents the pinnacle of my ability. I've often felt that what I've envisioned and what I created were very far apart. I've also felt that whatever I created was very derivative and likely to have been influenced by what I recently saw.

I've worked with a ton of great designers. The reaction to receiving their designs tends to be the same. First, I can recognize it as good design. Second, it makes sense what they did. Third, I wonder why I can't do the same. In fact, I'm probably in the roughest part of someone's path to learning web design (or anything else, really). I can recognize good design, but I can't yet create it myself. That's super frustrating.

This is another one of those learning topics where I feel the answer to getting better is doing a lot of designs.

I signed up for the online course Learn UI Design. It's well-regarded, the coursework is logically structured, and it has you do a bunch of designs. There's also a community component to it for getting feedback on the designs you create. That's a really important piece of the puzzle. My plan is to work through that course from beginning to end.

I don't want my web design journey to stop there. I'm not yet sure where else I'd like it to go, so I need to put some thought into that.

I'm not sure when to call this one done. I'm open to ideas if you have any.

Same as always, time. I started in on the course, watched the first set of lessons, and stalled out on doing some of the assignments. I got busy with client work, put this on the shelf, and haven't picked it back up.