Senior Web Designer • Teaching web design • Featured by Webflow, One Page Love & more • Cyclist • DNVR → KC → GVL

Benten

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was a nice exercise in working quickly and trusting my gut. Being able to create unique layouts is a combination of experience, practice and gathering inspiration. As time has gone on, I look less frequently to outside inspiration and prefer to think through design problems on my own either with pencil and paper, or with some exploration in Figma.The best way I've found to come up with great ideas is to collaborate with other people. Being able to bounce ideas off each other in a design file always ends in a much better result than working solo.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was a nice exercise in working quickly and trusting my gut. Being able to create unique layouts is a combination of experience, practice and gathering inspiration. As time has gone on, I look less frequently to outside inspiration and prefer to think through design problems on my own either with pencil and paper, or with some exploration in Figma.

The best way I've found to come up with great ideas is to collaborate with other people. Being able to bounce ideas off each other in a design file always ends in a much better result than working solo.

Just watched your Relume Design League challenge vs Fons Mans and it was mind-blowing to see how fast you whipped up a design that was both visually cohesive and structured, yet playful and unorthodox in just the right doses. For example: the Features section. Very easy to resort to traditional three column layouts or bento grids, but you pulled that beautiful masonry grid out of nowhere. I thought masking one of the images in a circle made for beautiful juxtaposition against the two square images. When it comes to crafting these unique layouts, how are you finding off the beaten path solutions that aren't garish in relation to the rest of the page so quickly? Is it just a mental repository of layouts you've accumulated in your mind after years of experience, or is there a mental process you have that helps you find a more calculated solution?

Benten

Developing unique layouts quickly