I'm an engineer and my designs look like it. I've been trying to improve lately. It started when I took a look at http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://mother

I'm an engineer and my designs look like it. I've been trying to improve lately. It started when I took a look at http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ and then looked at http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ It was an eye opener to me how just a few changes made the basic page so much better. Then I took a look at http://www.csszengarden.com/ http://www.csszengarden.com/ and by that I mean more than a look. I spent a lot of time studying how each designer did their work. I really tried to get into the mindset of a designer and how CSS is used to do this kind of thing. These people are genius to me; it seems so far out of reach. I started paying attention to design as I browsed the web. I thought about what I like and how they did it. I showed source to see what css libraries are being used. I subscribed to designers on social media (Facebook: I like WIMP - Web and Interactive Media Professionals, Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=web%20design https://twitter.com/search?q=web%20design) I started browsing http://thenews.im/ http://thenews.im/ once in awhile. I've been absorbing some of the ideas by osmosis. I'm starting to think in new ways about it without too much effort. It's mostly a matter of paying attention instead of thinking about code all the time. I'm not very far along the path, but the effort I made above is already paying off. Hope this helps.