How to build good design taste

A designer talks about the gap between what you want to make and what you can actually make when you're starting out. The frustration is real, but taste improves through practice and exposure to good work over time.
If you get into a field, let's say design, it's presumably because you have good enough taste in that thing that you appreciate it. And the problem when you start working in the field is that you are terrible. And so you look at your own work and you're like, this sucks, you know, because you have good taste and you're not good. So it's like, the delta is enormous and it's just constantly frustrating. But the interesting thing about that is if you have the good taste, you have the barometer to know and evaluate yourself as you continue to work towards getting better. And the only way to get better is to just do it a lot of work. And eventually that gap does start to close. Eventually, when it closes, what happens is that you'll do some work and your good taste and the work will be aligned and it will be good. But then, like I said, for me, that only lasts for a little bit of time. And the longer it lasts, the better the work probably was. But if I look at it, I'm. That's great. I go get coffee and I come back and I'm like, crap, it's terrible. It's like, it probably wasn't that good to begin with. So I think it's not really like a total end state. You don't get to a place where it's like, the work is objectively good forever.
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