First: UX is not visual design and visual design is not UX. Industry tends to blur them ("oh this person does Photoshop so we'll make them in charge of UX"). If you want to learn design, I'm less sure of what to recommend outside of "read a lot about Dieter Rams".
For UX, read Nielsen Norman and Dr. Weinschenks book "100 things every designer needs to know about humans".
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First: UX is not visual design and visual design is not UX. Industry tends to blur them ("oh this person does Photoshop so we'll make them in charge of UX"). If you want to learn design, I'm less sure of what to recommend outside of "read a lot about Dieter Rams".
For UX, read Nielsen Norman and Dr. Weinschenks book "100 things every designer needs to know about humans".