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Refactoring UI's videos and book are great: https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveSchoger/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveSchoger/videos https://www.refactorin

Refactoring UI's videos and book are great: https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveSchoger/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveSchoger/videos https://www.refactoringui.com/book https://www.refactoringui.com/book

somedangedname 5y ago
The linked video is a great example of 'show, don't tell'.
travisd 5y ago
I cannot recommend Refactoring UI enough. It’s designed for engineers and is a pragmatic mix of first principles and easy tricks. I think it’s great if you want to be able to bridge the gap between design projects. It’s not going to turn your product into a killer design but it’ll help you make a nice and usable dashboard or add buttons to a surface in your app.
pramodbiligiri 5y ago
Second this! Refactoring UI has very practical and effective advice for creating web UI's. Apart from this, I recommend "Learning Web Design" (5th Edition) by Jennifer Robbins. It has a broad sweep and still gives you all the practical tips. Learning React (2nd Edition) is a good one if you're going to use React. P.S: I did a similar Ask thread earlier this year where some of these were mentioned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020
- echoradio 5y ago
  Second Robbins’ “Learning Web Design.” Also, if you’re really a true beginner, also try “HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide” by Joe Cassabona. VQS is great because as you’re trying to learn an aspect of code, it includes a text explanation, what the code looks like and what you should expect to see on screen. Good luck! Have fun! :) Edit: “Hello Web Design” by Tracy Osborne is good for learning graphic design principles as they relate to the web. If you can get a copy of “The Non-Designers Web Book” by Robin Williams, that one’s excellent, too. It’s old, but the principles still apply.

somedangedname 5y ago

The linked video is a great example of 'show, don't tell'.

travisd 5y ago

I cannot recommend Refactoring UI enough. It’s designed for engineers and is a pragmatic mix of first principles and easy tricks. I think it’s great if you want to be able to bridge the gap between design projects. It’s not going to turn your product into a killer design but it’ll help you make a nice and usable dashboard or add buttons to a surface in your app.

pramodbiligiri 5y ago

Second this! Refactoring UI has very practical and effective advice for creating web UI's. Apart from this, I recommend "Learning Web Design" (5th Edition) by Jennifer Robbins. It has a broad sweep and still gives you all the practical tips. Learning React (2nd Edition) is a good one if you're going to use React. P.S: I did a similar Ask thread earlier this year where some of these were mentioned - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020

echoradio 5y ago
Second Robbins’ “Learning Web Design.” Also, if you’re really a true beginner, also try “HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide” by Joe Cassabona. VQS is great because as you’re trying to learn an aspect of code, it includes a text explanation, what the code looks like and what you should expect to see on screen. Good luck! Have fun! :) Edit: “Hello Web Design” by Tracy Osborne is good for learning graphic design principles as they relate to the web. If you can get a copy of “The Non-Designers Web Book” by Robin Williams, that one’s excellent, too. It’s old, but the principles still apply.