Learning Design: An Initial Curriculum

Color theory? Typography? Layout? Art history? Hello!!! Asking a coder for advice on how to be a designer is like asking a designer to tell you how to learn how to code. Look there are no shortcuts. Can you learn to be an average designer in about a year or two? Yes. Can you learn to be a designer in a week or two? No. And not for nothing, there's a wealth of inexpensive talent out there willing to work for little...