I’m curious about designing some websites and applications for personal (and potentially public via open sourcing) use. I’m an experienced programmer, but I have mostly worked with backends, programming language implementations and lower down the stack. My question is how do you learn to design any…

My question is how do you learn to design any application? Some people naturally develop the ability to create beautiful things, even if they are not always very usable. The rest of us have to learn it by exposing ourselves to good design and understanding what makes things pleasant to look at an…

A great website about UX and web/application design is https://www.smashingmagazine.com - they also have a newsletter with great resources.

Right now Humble Bundle has a bundle with a bunch of design books, including Universal Principles of Design. Thought you might be interested. [image] Humble Book Bundle: Visual Design & Branding Mastery by Quarto Redefine your personal brand or develop a fresh visual language for client…

This is one of my frustrations too :frowning:

Thanks for sharing this, it really helped me understand the concept better.

Huh? What concept are you talking about? How is an expired book sale supposed to help you learn anything?

How do you learn UI and UX design?

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Right now Humble Bundle has a bundle with a bunch of design books, including Universal Principles of Design. Thought you might be interested.

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