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On Finding Your Taste

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#design #creativity #practice

I used to think taste was innate. Some people “had an eye for design” and I didn’t. This was wrong.

Taste is attention

What we call “good taste” is really just paying attention to details most people skip. It’s noticing the spacing between letters, the weight of a line, the rhythm of a sentence.

The more you look, the more you see. The more you see, the more you can replicate and remix.

Building taste

  1. Collect what moves you. Save things that make you feel something. Don’t analyze yet — just gather.
  2. Study the details. Look at your collection. What patterns emerge? What do the things you love have in common?
  3. Copy to understand. Recreate something you admire. You’ll notice details you missed before.
  4. Make your own. Now remix. Combine influences. Break rules intentionally.

Taste is a practice, not a gift. Like any practice, it improves with time and attention.