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How To Master Awesome Flutter App Design
The name of the game, hopefully, that each flutter beginning app designer and developer is playing; is How To Master Awesome Flutter App Design. But it becomes how do I get you to do the work of design exercises and flutter app architecture exercises to reach that goal?
And, it’s a different goal than a typical Google Developer Expert have, as their goals tend to be centered upon detailing how to use Google APIs and frameworks and not focused upon well how do we get people to do transformative developer code work to become a front-end app designer.
Ray Wendrelich does a real good job of the developer stage and state of mastering flutter, they were even recently highlighted on the flutter.dev site:
But, then what about designing awesome flutter apps, as that is the focus of most flutter job interviews. How do I get you, the average person, to do the right flutter exercises to transform into that awesome flutter app designer?
How Our Brain Works
I have stated before that 99 percent of all decisions our brain makes flow through the optical cortex(eye cortex). In user-interface design, we use this to emotionally accent the user-interface based on user input. But, in the typical DartPad demo, are we getting enough stimulus to remember the code, and it’s association to app design? Probably not.
We have two other ways we form memories:
1. Our social brain part grabbing something due to interactions in a group.
2. Our emotional brain part grabbing something due to use generating a feeling about it.
Let me demonstrate by an example, let’s use the default provider counter demo.
The Provider Counter Demo
So let me set up the counter demo. First we have the main dart file to set up provider DI service locators:
