
How to grow as a UI designer the quick (but not the easy) way.
Design is hard work.
There are a couple of factors that influence how good you are at UI design: experience — or the sheer number of designs you completed — being the most important one. You can’t go around this — you need to design nearly every day, likely for a few years to be great. I designed over 400 different products in the last ten years, and that fact is the primary confidence builder.
However, you can improve a couple of other factors, especially one that’s often neglected:
The input-output lag between your brain and your hands.