Taste is a personal point of view that sharpens when you expose yourself to new work, find connections across different fields, and build your own frameworks. Revisit your old judgments, and learn to hold strong taste while matching other directions when a project demands it.
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There's a million definitions of taste, but I come back to like, what's your point of view on things and how do you develop your point of view? The more you can expand your viewpoints by looking at new things, finding the correlations, the links between different areas and different fields, different mediums, the better. And I think then reflecting on why creating frameworks for yourself, just building that internal curatorial ability is very important. How do you like look at every expression of human creativity that you can but then refine your own thinking, your own viewpoints, be willing to revisit the ones you've had in the past. That's what leads to great taste. I think the best designers on the product side can turn on and off they can go, I have my own taste, I know what I like. And then okay, you're going for this and that might be different than what I like, but I can match it.