To improve the design level, of course, the prerequisite is to master basic software technology and understand professional theoretical knowledge, etc., but there are also some important "secrets". The following tips to quickly improve the design level are for your reference.
1. Think
Designers must first be good at thinking and assert their own ideas and understanding of design. This is the most important thing. Don’t worry about how “bad” your idea is. No one can do it right at once, but you can definitely improve your habits and attitude. Learn to boldly explore and try your own ideas, know how to learn from others, and pursue your own creativity. But if you use templates and materials without thinking when designing, or even blindly imitate and plagiarize, it will simply destroy your creativity and nourish your inertia. You will never make progress in this way, and it will be very difficult to make progress in the future.
2. Look
Appreciate a lot of other people's works, especially excellent works, and cultivate the ability to appreciate art, which is necessary for improving design level. When reading, don't just take a quick look at it. You need to combine your professional knowledge and think about it while reading, and carefully study the places worth learning in the work. But some people will complain that they don’t have many design books to read the works. It is a waste of time and energy to search for a large number of design works and design resources that they need online. Here you suggest looking for a website that collects all excellent design resources on the Internet. This can save a lot of time and energy to improve learning efficiency.
Appreciate excellent works over and over again. Reviewing the past makes us learn something new, and the same goes for design. Collect works that you think are better. If you look at these works again after a while, you will often gain more than the first time.
Look at your work often. If you often look at your past design works, you will know whether your level has improved, and you will also have more design experience.
3. Practice
Practice a lot and over and over again. Without enough practice, even if you have enough design talent, you will not be able to improve your design level. Only by practicing continuously and repeatedly can you quickly improve your design ability. The more you do, the faster you will improve. There is no shortcut to this, you must do it in a down-to-earth manner. Of course, if you don't think about it during practice, you will get twice the result with half the effort. Just like learning to draw, you not only need to use strokes, but also need to use your brain.
4. Trial
Is your work considered a good work if it impresses you? In fact, it is not a good thing to be satisfied with your own work. Especially beginners who lack sufficient understanding of design and their own abilities often suffer from the problem of "narcissism". They are too satisfied with their own designs and always think that their designs are perfect and there is nothing better than this, but they don't know that their designs are good. How bad. On the contrary, when your level reaches a certain level, you will have a more objective and comprehensive understanding of your design, and you will not be easily satisfied with your design. Therefore, if you learn to interrogate yourself and ask others for advice humbly, you will avoid many detours. When you are very satisfied with your design, remember to interrogate yourself, is it really that good?
5. Question
Learn to communicate and ask if you don’t understand. Although most designers are not very outgoing, knowing how to communicate with others is a course that every designer must master. Design is not done behind closed doors. Designers not only need to communicate with clients, but also with colleagues and classmates. Of course, they also need to use the Internet to communicate with other designers. Only designers who are good at communication can improve themselves better and faster.
6. Knowledge
Designers should master relevant professional theoretical knowledge and read more professional theoretical knowledge to find out and fill in the gaps. At the same time, you need to learn a variety of knowledge. With rich knowledge, the more "materials" you have in your brain, they will all be able to participate in your design, and your design will be vivid, full and full of ideological connotation. Therefore, well-known design masters are often all-rounders. They are not only proficient in design, but also proficient in many other fields.
Designers need to know how to experience life and understand the world. This requires actual investigation and personal experience. Otherwise, your design will easily become divorced from life and lose its appeal, because design originates from life and serves life. At the same time, designers need to understand the world to gain more knowledge and maintain the latest ideas. No matter how rich the design experience of a designer with backward thinking and ignorance, his works will always appear lame and vulgar.
Of course, if you want to have rich knowledge and insights, you need to take the initiative to pay attention and accumulate them in your daily life.
7. Diligence
Being a designer is not an easy profession and requires diligent self-study. Most excellent designers are "self-taught." If you don't take the time to take the initiative to improve yourself, it will be difficult to improve your design level, and you may even fall back if you don't advance. Therefore, it is recommended that you spend more time on design after studying or working, so that you can improve your design level more quickly.
8. Morality
The designer's moral character will not only be reflected in every detail of life, but also penetrate into the design. This may be a deeper interpretation of "design for people". If a designer has narrow thoughts and morals, sooner or later he will kill his artistic cells and block his artistic path, because art is extracted from life and is the truth, purity, goodness and beauty that people pursue. Designers should have a broad mind in order to have a broad design space and inspiration space, and your design path will go further and smoother.
Nine, long
Design cannot be successful overnight. Only by doing it for a long time can you have excellent design level and valuable design experience. Since you have chosen a career as a designer, you must be patient and work hard to do a great job. Although you will encounter a lot of hardships, difficulties and setbacks, don't shrink back and give up. Without these, how will your design ability grow and how will you gain experience? So what you need to do is forget them, look forward, and keep walking confidently. Your footsteps will one day step on a smooth road, and by then, success will be waving in front of you with a smile.