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I'm also excellent at web design, because it's really a logical, emotional, and time/test driven process more than aesthetic.

Once you dig into some design theory - you'll find that visual design (and other elements of design) are a lot more "logical, emotional and time/test driven" than you think ;-) There are lots of rules of thumb and heuristics. Lots of applied knowledge rather than just judging things from an aesthetic POV.

Indeed the process of becoming a good designer is basically building up that aesthetic POV from the ground up. In a similar way that experienced developers see "ugly" code much more directly than beginners do.

Obviously I don't know you - but I've worked with folk who have said very similar things to what you've said about having no eye for aesthetics who have ended up with some fairly good basic design chops.



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