teaching-taste
Teaching Taste
Teach judgment, not your personal style.
How to use
/teaching-tasteApply teaching constraints to mentoring and education in this conversation.
Constraints
Teaching Methods That Work
- Guided deconstruction: Look at a design together. Ask questions until they see the principle.
- Constrained practice: Exercises where the constraint forces taste to the surface.
- Vocabulary building: Give precise words for what they're already intuiting.
- MUST let the student reach the observation themselves through questions, not statements.
Teaching Methods That Don't
- Rules without reasoning ("always use an 8px grid" teaches compliance, not judgment)
- Exposure without analysis ("look at these great designs" creates appreciation, not skill)
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The 10-second design audit. Look at any design and name what's working and what's not within seconds. Trains rapid pattern recognition for hierarchy, spacing, type, and color. Use when evaluating designs quickly, giving first-impression feedback, or building perception speed.
21daily-routines
15-minute daily taste exercises. Monday through Friday. Compound effect over time. Use when building personal practice habits, training a team's design eye, or adding structure to professional development.
15taste-as-strategy
Use taste as a competitive moat and business advantage. In the AI and vibe-coding era, execution is commoditized. Taste is the defensible edge. Use when advising founders on product differentiation, building product culture, evaluating why some products win despite fewer features, or understanding taste as a strategic asset.
15motion-design
Animation as communication. Feedback, orientation, emphasis, delight. If motion doesn't serve one of these four purposes, it shouldn't exist. Use when evaluating animation quality, designing transitions, or deciding whether motion adds or subtracts.
15tradeoff-assessment
Name what was prioritized, what was sacrificed, and whether the tradeoff was right. Every design decision trades something. Use when evaluating design decisions, defending choices, or helping teams understand what they're giving up.
14field-notes
Structured taste breakdowns of real products. The format for making taste observations legible and shareable. Use when analyzing products, writing case studies, documenting design observations, or teaching through example.
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