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Read, and try things. A lot. Read books, read articles, read forums, go to conferences or watch videos from conferences. And try things - do small projects at home, do large projects at home, work in multiple projects at work, if you can. In all these projects, try various things. See how good or bad they are.
There really isn't any shortcut for this. This is why experience is so valuable and sought after. There is no replacement for it.
Read about how others have done it, and how it worked for them. Ask colleagues, if you have some which did this before. Remeber how you did it (if you ever did it before), and how it worked out for you. Try some prototypes, and see how they work. These are the strategies most people use.
Seems like on one hand, programmers (online at least) are really against being questioned during interviews about whether they "live the code" and spend their free time on contributing to other projects or developing their own, but if this is really the only way to learn stuff like that then maybe they have a point. I was hoping there's a better way but I guess it's the same as always - work enough and hope the stuff you learn ends up being useful one day...