34 Getting Started Right
individual. Happy designers are slightly more likely to share and
learn with others.
Outside of formal education, how do you prefer to learn new
design skills?
Rodney Blackney, designer at Envato, advocates for the impor-
tance of sharing your work and networking with designers and
non-designers alike:
“
It’s definitely good networking with not only designers,
but with developers, project and account managers,
etc. That is pretty much how I got my foot in the door
for the design job at Envato. I had met Clinton, Ryan,
and John before starting here. So my advice is not to
Web tutorials and
walkthroughs
Blog articles and posts
e-learning courses
Communities
& forums
Published books
(paper or ebook)
Conferences
In-person help from
another designer
Studying source files
or templates
Trial and error
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
61.0%
54.1%
30.7%
16.0%
52.8%
36.4%
37.7%
65.4%
86.6%
64.9%
64.7%
32.6%
19.0%
59.6%
42.6%
39.4%
77.3%
93.0%
Ar e you happy working in web design? Yes No
