The Importance of Pattern Recognition in Design

I want to just pick on one point that you just mentioned earlier about looking at websites and kind of immediately picking up on patterns. Is that a skill that you learned or was that ability innate in you? No, I think every human brain is extremely good at pattern recognition, as long as you give it enough input. And so I think it wasn't something I intentionally wanted to do, and I think I assumed I would always have bad taste. But just looking at all of that stuff over the years, I've been designing now for eight and a half years or so. I realise that now I have a better taste, and it's just because I'm recognising these things without real