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It's the second for sure. With a design I can recreate it in code without that much issue. The problem for me is very much the blank canvas. I sit down knowing

It's the second for sure. With a design I can recreate it in code without that much issue. The problem for me is very much the blank canvas. I sit down knowing what I need to include, but then I start with the mobile spec (as I've been told you're supposed to) and the the tablet, then the desktop...Somewhere in between I've lost the thread, in fact, I've lost all perspective about what I'm supposed to be making and how things tie together. Thank you for the links, those are good resources. I think I'm going to just have to commit to study and deconstruct what is working for other sites, it's just not something that comes naturally to me. I do wish that there were the kind of declarative tutorials/walkthroughs available for the front end as there are for the back end, a kind of case study in solving a particular design problem.

rndmize 9y ago
In that case, a few more things. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515/ https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/d... http://webtypography.net/ http://webtypography.net/ You'll probably want to do some reading on common components of design such as color, spacing/negative space/white space, grids, typography. I feel like even experienced designers can have trouble coming up with something that will work on phones, tables, and various desktop/laptop screen sizes all at once. I'd pick one platform to target initially, get something working there, and then see about the others later; otherwise, you're taking something you already aren't practiced at and multiplying your difficulty several times. Here's another design book I like and which is more in the direction of case studies, but the material (dashboards) is very specific and might not be useful to you - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938377001/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938377001/

rndmize 9y ago

In that case, a few more things. https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515/ https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/d... http://webtypography.net/ http://webtypography.net/ You'll probably want to do some reading on common components of design such as color, spacing/negative space/white space, grids, typography. I feel like even experienced designers can have trouble coming up with something that will work on phones, tables, and various desktop/laptop screen sizes all at once. I'd pick one platform to target initially, get something working there, and then see about the others later; otherwise, you're taking something you already aren't practiced at and multiplying your difficulty several times. Here's another design book I like and which is more in the direction of case studies, but the material (dashboards) is very specific and might not be useful to you - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938377001/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1938377001/