name: self-assessment description: "Diagnose your taste gaps across six skill areas. Know what to practice. Use when starting a taste development program, checking progress, or identifying specific areas to improve."

Self-Assessment

Know your gaps. Practice the right thing.

Rate 1-5 on each:

Seeing: Can you spot spacing inconsistencies, hierarchy issues, and craft details without being told?
Comparing: Can you rank solutions and explain the ranking beyond personal preference?
Deconstructing: Can you reverse-engineer the constraints and decisions behind a design?
Collecting: Do you have an organized, principle-tagged reference library you can search in 60 seconds?
Articulating: Can you explain design decisions without saying "it feels right"?
Applying: Does your first design instinct usually turn out to be correct?

Lowest score = where to focus. Don't improve everything at once.
High Seeing + Low Articulating = good instincts, can't convince anyone. Focus on vocabulary.
High Collecting + Low Applying = great references, own work doesn't match. Focus on deconstruction.
Even scores across the board (all 2s or 3s) = the plateau. Go deep in any one area.
MUST retake every 3 months. Taste develops too slowly to notice daily.