Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by vnkus » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

I find Excalidraw to be really cool with respect to UI/UX

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by flyinglizard » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

Azure Data Studio. It’s a bit buggy still but this kind of visual/textual hybrid is very clean and powerful.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by throwaway6734 » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:21 PM UTC

Bridgeburner4 wrote: post #8

throwaway6734 wrote: post #4

Mac's Window manager. I love how each separate screen had its own "space" that can be cycled through with control and arrow

I'm using it with https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst . It's ok and I couldn't manage without.

Thanks!

I run Ubuntu on my personal machine and haven't found a suitable alternative yet. The more time I spend on my Mac work machine the more I'm thinking about switching my personal one due to this

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by 600frogs » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

throwaway6734 wrote: post #4

Mac's Window manager. I love how each separate screen had its own "space" that can be cycled through with control and arrow

Interesting, can you expand on your workflow a bit more? I'm of the exact opposite opinion - I think Mac's window management is the absolute worst thing about using a Mac - so I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by jitl » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:27 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #3

Netlify is consistently held up as an example of how to do developer focused UX. I'm def biased as an ex employee but I can attest that i've seen from the inside how closely design and accessibility are integrated in the dev process. as far as up and comers, i'd recommend checking out https://supabase.io/ - love the minimal black/green aesthetic. they recently released a Tailwind/React design system too https://ui.su…

Supabase is really such a dream. It’s obviously early days yet for them, but I love working with the little subset that I picked — it really goes a long way to making Postgres easy. I wonder how accessible it is to newcomers though - feels more useful for the “I’ve used postgres before and am doing a side project” crowd (eg me) versus the Firebase audience of “hello I want something called back end plz”

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by jitl » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

hkhanna wrote: post #10

Harvest: https://www.getharvest.com/ Simple, discoverable, does not abuse the SPA paradigm, and lets you turn off features you don't need so it doesn't clutter the UI.

I’m glad they’re still going strong - I used them to track time as a freelancer a decade ago!

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by thrill » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

command line with flags and manpages

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by ricopags » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

jamesdwilson wrote: post #9

Monday.com Avaza Fogbugz Anything JetBrains

Was monday.com a UX you instantly enjoyed or did it take some time? I am not finding it a breeze myself.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by throwaway6734 » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:30 PM UTC

600frogs wrote: post #14

throwaway6734 wrote: post #4

Mac's Window manager. I love how each separate screen had its own "space" that can be cycled through with control and arrow

Interesting, can you expand on your workflow a bit more? I'm of the exact opposite opinion - I think Mac's window management is the absolute worst thing about using a Mac - so I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong.

I use one external monitor and MacBook screen. I full screen all applications and switch between them using control and the arrow key.

So my external monitor has email, IDE, and misc stuff.

Screen has browser, terminal, chat application.

Pressing control + up allows you to easily reorder and move elements. It's helpful to turn off the default option of automatically sorting your screens

Re: Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?

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Post by nicoburns » Tue, May 25, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

jitl wrote: post #15

swyx wrote: post #3

Netlify is consistently held up as an example of how to do developer focused UX. I'm def biased as an ex employee but I can attest that i've seen from the inside how closely design and accessibility are integrated in the dev process. as far as up and comers, i'd recommend checking out https://supabase.io/ - love the minimal black/green aesthetic. they recently released a Tailwind/React design system too https://ui.su…

Supabase is really such a dream. It’s obviously early days yet for them, but I love working with the little subset that I picked — it really goes a long way to making Postgres easy. I wonder how accessible it is to newcomers though - feels more useful for the “I’ve used postgres before and am doing a side project” crowd (eg me) versus the Firebase audience of “hello I want something called back end plz”

I always wonder where the “hello I want something called back end plz” crowd come from (is it coding bootcamps?). Backend is so much easier than frontend, an so many problems and complexities can be avoided by putting things in the backend.

When I joined my company, there were a couple of junior devs on my who had barely touched the backend, and never used SQL (because we used to be on firebase). They were up, running ans productive with both in under 2 weeks.