How to make a design from a prototype?

Question

Layouts and prototypes

I often face the problem: how to make a beautiful website design from a finished prototype (black and white or monochrome)? How do you go from prototype to design?
Coloring, adding patterns and images results in a rather boring almost template version, you have to spend a lot of time surfing in search of extraordinary solutions.
There are a lot of cool creative works on Behans and similar portals, but, unfortunately, they are poorly applicable in real projects.

Answer 1

moikrug.ru - section "Design"