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Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

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Post by jeanlucas »

sandreas wrote: post #39

Take a look at Kevin Powells Youtube Channel. Besides the tools and techniques used there, he stuffs a lot of other useful information in nearly every video... https://www.youtube.com/kepowob

I do web design for a while now and I watch his channel because it is just cool how he explain things.

Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

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Post by travisd »

code_biologist wrote: post #3

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

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.

Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

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Post by baggsie »

blondin wrote: post #16

this book: the non-designer's design book by robin williams. this is on my list of best books about particular topics. this one is about design in general. i still remember the acronym the author came up with after all these years. parc for: proximity, alignment, r..., contrast. okay i lied, i don't remember what r stands for anymore haha :) everything you see and like about good design have to do with these 4 terms.…

Aka C.R.A.P. design... Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity.

Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

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Post by gadrev »

elliekelly wrote: post #40
abdel_nasser wrote: post #31

by the way, i was looking at HNs html and everything seems to be made out of tables. tables absolutely everywhere. can anyone tell me why that is?

I think it’s the old school way. I took a “Basic Web Design” class in high school so I could master the art of MySpace page customization and we were taught to use html tables for most layout/positioning that’s now down with CSS. Tables are so much easier to work with than flexbox and the result is pretty consistent across browsers and window sizes without having to fuss as much. Maybe I’m just cranky and old but fle…

Flexbox is pretty good when you use it for what it's designed for IMO. Maybe you'd find grid more useful for those use cases you dislike using flexbox.

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Post by GhettoComputers »

sergiomattei wrote: post #26
GhettoComputers wrote: post #20

No mention of this? https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ > You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. > I'm not actually saying your sh…

This is so, so unhelpful.

What’s wrong with it? I like KISS.

Is this better?

www.evenbettermotherfucking.website

Re: Ask HN: Best self-starter resources to learn web design?

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Post by ghozt »

GhettoComputers wrote: post #45
sergiomattei wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so, so unhelpful.

What’s wrong with it? I like KISS. Is this better? www.evenbettermotherfucking.website

For the sake of the trilogy: https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
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