Try reading a non-programming design book too. I'm reading 'Notes on the Synthesis of Form' by Christopher Alexander at the moment, and it has some interesting

Try reading a non-programming design book too. I'm reading 'Notes on the Synthesis of Form' by Christopher Alexander at the moment, and it has some interesting stuff on tackling problems elegantly. I find myself taking the first solution that appears to me, which is not great. I'm trying to adopt more of a sketching approach, writing a few bits of code to see how things would interact, and working out where the complexity would bite me in a design.