Copy If You Can: Improving Your UI Design Skills With Copywork — Smashing Magazine

Is copywork really for you? Unless you’re known the world over for your inimitable style, then yes, you would probably benefit from it. Copywork is a technique that writers and painters have been using for centuries. It is the process of recreating an existing work as closely as possible in order to improve one’s skill. In your case, this means recreating a user interface (UI) design pixel for pixel.

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