Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?

#Productivity #User Experience #Education 19 social mentions

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HackDesign

I recall the HackDesign website/course being great a few years ago! Not sure about now, but used to be free...! https://hackdesign.org/.

#CSS #Design Tools #CSS Tutorials 5 social mentions

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Design Pitfalls

I found Design for Hackers[1] to be an incredibly informative book; it provides a great deal of insight into UI patterns, color schemes and selections, and overall UI design. It's definitely more oriented towards graphical UIs but provides enough general insight into design considerations that you could generalize it for TUIs and CLIs if needed. [1]: https://designforhackers.com/.

#Education #Design Tools #User Experience 4 social mentions

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Angle 2 Mockups

In particular, the third edition focuses heavily on desktop while the fourth edition strays into mobile. Love em. That said, more practical and recent resources include https://www.interaction-design.org/master-classes and https://designcode.io/ for different topics. I’m sure there are others, but these are just off the top of my head.

#Design Tools #Prototyping #Website Design 24 social mentions

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Balsamiq

I think the best practical approach for designing UIs is to download (and buy) Balsamic[0] and use that to design UIs. Cut through the nonsense of colours and pixels in the first instance and just lay things out logically and simply. [0] https://balsamiq.com.

#Prototyping #Design Collaboration #Design Tools 30 social mentions