How do you handle design when working a project that doesn’t have explicit design guidelines?
I’ve been working on some personal projects, but I am continually getting held up on design. I hate looking at a blank page, not knowing where to start. I’m not a particularly creative person in art and design and I really struggle to come up with new ideas on my own. I don’t enjoy it.
I’m the kind of person who buy 10 plain black t-shirts and 5 pairs of plain jeans so I never have to think about style.
I’m sure there are a lot of us out there; you can make the thing but, not design it. How do you work that part of the process?
I don’t want my projects to get skipped over because they’re ugly and I don’t want to copy other designs pixel for pixel.
You can start by using plain, semantic HTML and grabbing a classless CSS with a license you like. (Check out this list.)
It’s good enough for a simple app or site, and it’s honestly impressive how good something can look with just this. It’s the “plain t-shirt and jeans” of web design.