It’s no doubt that great graphic design skills lead to superior UI design

Graphic design plays a large role in UI design. Furthermore, a great UI design boosts UX tenfold. It makes sense that, as a UX designer, you have a solid knowledge base of the fundamentals of graphic design.

Regularly checking graphic design blogs and reading about the topic will help you keep track of the current trends and how they’re evolving. It will splash you with the zesty juice of inspiration when you hit a brick wall, as well as help you come up with creative solutions to common UI design problems.

Following or not following certain graphic design trends can affect the UI design of whatever product you’re working on, and thus, affect the UX of that product. Trends often develop for a reason, and are very seldomly just random changes. It’s crucial for you to be on trend as well as getting yourself a professional.

But what about originality? That’s important too, right? How do you become a trendsetter and break out of the current status quo? The answer is by knowing what the current trends are. Only when you’re aware of the current trends and understand them, can you answer back with your own unique and original designs.

However, learning about trends isn’t the only way graphic design blogs can help inspire you. The fact that many blogs showcase work from other designers means they are a goldmine for inspiration.

Regularly exposing ourselves to the work of other designers can provide us with a fresh perspective. Seeing the work of others might open us up to new ideas, to avenues that we hadn’t considered traversing before.

After all, much of a designer’s work, or indeed, any creative person’s work is often inspired by the toil of others. Therefore, both experienced and beginner designers alike can benefit hugely from regularly exposing themselves to other people’s creative accomplishments.

As graphic designer Gareth David said in his Youtube video, What is Graphic Design, design is about “thinking, problem solving and practicality”. It’s about finding a solution to a problem. Following graphic design blogs is not only a great way to get inspired, but also a way to think outside the box,

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Here’s why: following other niches of graphic design can help you come up with creative solutions to problem solving. Let’s say you work solely in digital UI design, that doesn’t mean that you can’t, and shouldn’t take inspiration from other niches.