I completely disagree. Tips that help me are the antithesis of what you said. In fact, I believe that if one follows these tips, you're worse off. - Anytime y

I completely disagree. Tips that help me are the antithesis of what you said. In fact, I believe that if one follows these tips, you're worse off. - Anytime you find a UI or mechanic you like while on the web, take a screenshot of it and save it. Instead of blindlessly snipping things on the internet, try to understand why you like it. What fundamentally makes it fun/pleasure to use? - Pick a palette from flatuicolors.com; congratulations, just use this forever (forever until you've gotten better at design to change) What guides one from picking their "favorite"? You're omitting the entire "black box" that makes the designer pick their favorite. This black box is biases and training of looking endlessly on Dribble and other designers on Instagram. This is trend chasing. This is how you get practically every damn startup with a magenta-purple aesthetic we see all too often from Firefox to Datadog. Instead start from the bottom-up. Can you get by without using a color? What does adding a color buy you? Why should you use different colors? Is there a hierarchy of importance that needs to be conveyed to the user? Why is a color needed in the first place? - Make a logo with Photoshop, GIMP, or whatever graphics program you have using that above color palette Also make an owl (from another comment) - If you have the time, sign up for Daily UI (dailyui.co) and and practice making mockups. Even if you're trying to learn front end web development, this will let your creative juices practice. IMHO - UI that emerges out of the product-user interaction rather than chasing some trends, pintrest board or inspiration from other sites, is guaranteed to be functional because it was the first checklist in the designers process. Once functional, you can work on context seperation using colors or whitespace or typography, whatever...