I learned this the hard way. Fresh out of a tutorial binge, I knew every shortcut in Illustrator. I could make a mean drop shadow and a chrome text effect that would blind you. But my designs? They looked "off." The typography was screaming, the colors clashed, and the layout felt like a game of Tetris gone wrong.
But here is the truth:
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