Comments on: How to Make the Most of Design Tutorials Without Losing Your Soul http://jpedroribeiro.com/2010/02/how-to-make-the-most-of-design-tutorials-without-losing-your-soul/ Brazilian web designer writing about design, photography, illustrations and his projects. Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JChttp://jpedroribeiro.com/2010/02/how-to-make-the-most-of-design-tutorials-without-losing-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-1720 JC Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:53:26 +0000 http://jpedroribeiro.com/?p=90#comment-1720 Having written a few tutorials in my day (actually just posted one on my blog today) I think they are invaluable as a learning tool. A huge chunk of what I know about photoshop, illustrator, jquery, php, et. al. is from tutorial strewn across the web. The secret though is to adapt the techniques you learn, not just copy them and make the same old same old. Great article and keep up the good work! Having written a few tutorials in my day (actually just posted one on my blog today) I think they are invaluable as a learning tool. A huge chunk of what I know about photoshop, illustrator, jquery, php, et. al. is from tutorial strewn across the web. The secret though is to adapt the techniques you learn, not just copy them and make the same old same old. Great article and keep up the good work!

]]> By: Niki Brown | The Design O'Bloghttp://jpedroribeiro.com/2010/02/how-to-make-the-most-of-design-tutorials-without-losing-your-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-1639 Niki Brown | The Design O'Blog Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:41:21 +0000 http://jpedroribeiro.com/?p=90#comment-1639 I think that theres nothing wrong with learning skills from tutorials, its when we stop thinking when we run into trouble. Some people mindlessly follow tutorials thinking that this makes them a 'designer' when there is so much more critical thinking involved.I recently wrote an article about whats wrong with the majority of tutorials out there on design blogs: Tutorials gone wild http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/05/28/tutorials-gone-wild/ I think that theres nothing wrong with learning skills from tutorials, its when we stop thinking when we run into trouble. Some people mindlessly follow tutorials thinking that this makes them a ‘designer’ when there is so much more critical thinking involved.

I recently wrote an article about whats wrong with the majority of tutorials out there on design blogs: Tutorials gone wild http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2009/05/28/tutorials-gone-wild/

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