Reddit reviews The Non-Designer's Design Book (Non Designer's Design Book)

Studying layout design would actually be a good start!

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I'm fond of the Non-Designer's Design Book, personally:

https://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Non-Designers-ebook/dp/B00PWDFWEE?keywords=layout+design&qid=1540163316&rnid=2941120011&s=Kindle+Store&sr=1-3&ref=sr_1_3

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Design School: Layout is good too:

https://www.amazon.com/Design-School-Layout-Richard-Poulin-ebook/dp/B079N6HLQ2?keywords=layout+design&qid=1540163316&rnid=2941120011&s=Kindle+Store&sr=1-1&ref=sr_1_1

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If you really want to get into it, a book on color theory wouldn't go amiss either. :)

The only qualification you need to be a designer is a good portfolio.

I’d just recommend The Non-Designer’s Design Book and literally any design book that looks interesting to you. https://amzn.to/2XJmQym (Thinking with Type is a favorite of mine.)

Watch documentaries about design like Helvetica. Sign up for Lynda to learn the software if that helps.

And then just start making projects, share them with other (better, ideally) designers for feedback, and never stop trying to make better work.

I started learning some HTML & CSS and got to the point where I began to build things but realised my designs skills were absolutely horrible. I took it upon myself to start learning design via books/articles and just practising. I think it's very important to develop your eye for design by looking at lots of nice UI's on a regular basis via places like Dribbble. I'm by no means a good designer yet but I've improved loads since I started learning and have even been paid a few times to do some design work so I can't that bad ;)

You/I might not become 'great' designers but you can definitely improve leaps and bounds with a will to learn and plenty of practice.

Here's my Dribbble profile :-
https://dribbble.com/mshanda

The book that started off my learning was The Non-designers Design Book.
http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-4th-Designers-ebook/dp/B00PWDFWEE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1421701893&sr=1-1

There is also some older versions if you don't mind buying 2nd hand.

I’ll leave the content to others since this is not my area but I would use much less bold type and use italics rather than underlining. This book would be worth getting. It has a lot of resume examples.

Deep, man. If anyone else is interested, I found this book on the subject on Amazon, kindle version for 11$