I am a beginner frontend developer and not a designer, so take my advice at your peril :) I would draw all the screens on paper, with a pencil, trying to get i

I am a beginner frontend developer and not a designer, so take my advice at your peril :) I would draw all the screens on paper, with a pencil, trying to get it right. Then I would code it in a by-the-book style using VueJS or EmberJS and Bootstrap or Semantic UI. Don't try to customize the design yet, just make it exactly as it come from these tools. Then, when everything is working and looking fairly ok as a modern interface, I would check out more interesting websites out there that has the feeling you want with your own project. And used it as reference to choose colors, fonts, layout, etc. A good place to start looking for references that I found here at HN just now: https://klart.co/pixels https://klart.co/pixels