MasterOnce
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From Zero to Layout Instinct

Build layout intuition with tiny drills before building full screens.

VStack, HStack, and ZStack are the core. When you repeat them, you stop guessing.

Short drills teach you spacing, alignment, and how views size themselves.

Once you repeat the core layout patterns, you can design screens quickly.

Try the layout drills in MasterOnce and feel layout turn into instinct.

Layout is a language. Repetition teaches the grammar.

Spend one session on spacing and another on alignment.

Do not jump to complex layouts until the basics feel effortless.

Your hands will learn where to place modifiers without thinking.

That is the moment layout stops feeling like math.

Try the repetition loop

Pick a SwiftUI concept and write it 50 times. Feel the pattern lock in.