[juice13]

I don't agree with you. I'm a developer and I can't design.

After designing many frontends I have come to this conclusion. I'm just not good at it. It takes me ages to get anything done, I have very little original ideas of how to make a page more functional, or even pretty. I can recognise a good design, but I just can't seem to produce it no matter how hard I try, or how long I try for.

Also, doing frontend design just seems to make me miserable. Much happier coding the backend where I'm good and paying a frontend person who does good work there.

[davidw]

> It takes me ages to get anything done

... and then people tell me "you probably haven't considered it yet, but you should spend some time working on the design of the site". Argh! I wish I were better at it though.

[alinajaf]

Have you tried having a read of The Non-designers Design Book?

While it won't make you a master designer, it will give you some basics. Notably CRAP (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) and the basics of colour theory and typography.

I found it to be an extremely easy read with good exercises for people like me who are somewhat aesthetically challenged.

[AndrewDucker]

Yup, same here. I can sometimes recognise good design when I see it, but I also know that my idea of good is not the same as the majority.

Frankly, I'm best off with the infrastructure/back-end side of things, and letting people who have a good eye do the design.

[klepra]

What about front end coding? Putting design into js/html/css? Is that also a domain of a backend developer or designer? I am just asking because I am really not sure.