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It wasn't mentioned because design is more than just skinning the UI after the fact. Design is about being mindful of things like presentation, layout and orga

It wasn't mentioned because design is more than just skinning the UI after the fact. Design is about being mindful of things like presentation, layout and organization. A skin can help with presentation but it will never make up for poor layout or organization. Often times developers and designers don't take the time to even understand Bootstrap or how to use it's layout system, instead choosing to hack it by adding CSS classes until it "looks right". These design choices often fall apart with the slightest change to display size or upstream changes in the HTML.

bredren 7y ago
Using these templates does help understand good layout because the examples have already shown 85% or more of how a common consumer or saas app needs to display web UI. By implementing them, mixing and matching, you get a feel for how it aught to be because there are plenty of examples. Simply by using these you can become more mindful of design. Asking a dev to start from zero and learn design is not realistic and for a potential solo technical startup founder a waste of time. If designers don't understand bootstrap layouts that's fine. But if a developer doesn't they are not trying. And these templates don't fall apart from small changes, they are built responsive from the get go and have tons of helper classes so developers can still alter them without hacking them up.