<aside> ℹ️ Creating a successful design doesn't have to feel like wandering through a maze. There's a cool design trick that keeps things smooth and helps you nail it every time. It's like a recipe with four easy steps, each one making your work better and better.

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Each completed step is already a success and a result. You won't have to jump chaotically from choosing colors and understanding how to make the text on cards to what the main visualization of overall app should be. You move right on to completion.

Most of the time, designers go around in circles, coming up with a solution, and then going back again. When creating a design, some begin by searching for a color palette; some make a big hero title or a focal illustration, or start by finding an overall design style. Each of these ways leads to wasted time and constant redoing of what's already done.

Say you choose a font and colors, and then immediately start implementing the design idea, making dummy texts and inserting placeholder images. Then you get the actual content of the interface, and everything becomes completely different.

You've made big and short headings when in fact, they're going to be long. You've planned many beautiful details, but there's nowhere for them to go in the actual content. In the end, the whole style doesn't fit the content because the colors and fonts you've chosen don't reflect the purpose and direction of the project.

Working on typography and design doesn't start with choosing a font or text size but with understanding what kind of content you'll be working with. Only content can give you an idea of what techniques and approaches to design it and what style it might have. Only the content and structure can tell you what fonts, text sizes, and other parameters to use.

The design algorithm works for any type of project.