For those of you who haven't obsessively followed Brandon Harris's
answers on Quora
http://www.quora.com/Brandon-Harris-1/answers -- check
out his suggestions on how to improve your skills at interaction design
and visual design:
http://www.quora.com/Communication-Design/How-can-I-get-good-at-visual-and-…
A few key tips from Brandon's answer: design is about understanding
problems. Look at problems and try to re-solve the problems you run
across every day, both simple and complex. Research why people created
existing solutions and made certain decisions, and think about what
you'd do differently. Learn to communicate your designs, and practice a
lot.
Brandon, thanks for the writeup.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation