Ask HN: Examples of best practice modern website design?

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
surveyjs.io
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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  • govuk-puppet

    Discontinued Decommissioned: Puppet manifests that used to provision the legacy GOV.UK stack.

  • For usability and accessibility check out https://www.gov.uk/

  • material-ui-docs

    ⚠️ Please don't submit PRs here as they will be closed. To edit the docs or source code, please use the main repository:

  • (I'm a frontend dev, but I came into the design side only later in my career, after having started as a full-stack programmer.)

    I think this book is probably the single best resource I've seen on the topic: https://www.refactoringui.com/

    It's a really easy-to-use format (one quick tip on each page, with clear examples).

    It's from the people who made Tailwind, a CSS framework that's basically a reimagining of Bootcamp for the Javascript/component era.

    Check out some of their templates: https://tailwindui.com/templates

    These are lookalike "modern" designs that you can pay to use, or just draw inspiration from. Imitation == flattery and all that.

    Along similar lines, check out the free Next.js templates: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

    If you want to build up from components instead, Tailwind offers a component library too: https://tailwindui.com/components

    For React, I prefer the astoundingly good MUI framework (amazing components with lots of customizability, a good enough default look, and great documentation): https://mui.com/ If you end up going this route, using their Figma kit (https://mui.com/store/items/figma-react/) plus the Refactoring UI book from above should allow you to whip up a pretty standard-looking, "pretty enough" design in very little time. And then implementing it using the actual MUI lib would just take a few days.

    There's also Ant Design: https://ant.design/

    And Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

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    For more theoretical stuff (i.e., less visual but still very valuable), the UX research group Nielsen Norman still has a treasure trove of valuable advice: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-ten-guidelines-for-home...

    You should know the basics of accessibility (beyond general usability, this alos means alt text, header levels, contrast ratios, readability, screen readers, keyboard navigation, special considerations for the hard of sight and hearing, etc.): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ or at least use an easy checklist tool like Microsoft's WCAG analyzer: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • chakra-ui

    ⚡️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications

  • (I'm a frontend dev, but I came into the design side only later in my career, after having started as a full-stack programmer.)

    I think this book is probably the single best resource I've seen on the topic: https://www.refactoringui.com/

    It's a really easy-to-use format (one quick tip on each page, with clear examples).

    It's from the people who made Tailwind, a CSS framework that's basically a reimagining of Bootcamp for the Javascript/component era.

    Check out some of their templates: https://tailwindui.com/templates

    These are lookalike "modern" designs that you can pay to use, or just draw inspiration from. Imitation == flattery and all that.

    Along similar lines, check out the free Next.js templates: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

    If you want to build up from components instead, Tailwind offers a component library too: https://tailwindui.com/components

    For React, I prefer the astoundingly good MUI framework (amazing components with lots of customizability, a good enough default look, and great documentation): https://mui.com/ If you end up going this route, using their Figma kit (https://mui.com/store/items/figma-react/) plus the Refactoring UI book from above should allow you to whip up a pretty standard-looking, "pretty enough" design in very little time. And then implementing it using the actual MUI lib would just take a few days.

    There's also Ant Design: https://ant.design/

    And Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

    -----------

    For more theoretical stuff (i.e., less visual but still very valuable), the UX research group Nielsen Norman still has a treasure trove of valuable advice: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-ten-guidelines-for-home...

    You should know the basics of accessibility (beyond general usability, this alos means alt text, header levels, contrast ratios, readability, screen readers, keyboard navigation, special considerations for the hard of sight and hearing, etc.): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ or at least use an easy checklist tool like Microsoft's WCAG analyzer: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

  • antd

    An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library

  • (I'm a frontend dev, but I came into the design side only later in my career, after having started as a full-stack programmer.)

    I think this book is probably the single best resource I've seen on the topic: https://www.refactoringui.com/

    It's a really easy-to-use format (one quick tip on each page, with clear examples).

    It's from the people who made Tailwind, a CSS framework that's basically a reimagining of Bootcamp for the Javascript/component era.

    Check out some of their templates: https://tailwindui.com/templates

    These are lookalike "modern" designs that you can pay to use, or just draw inspiration from. Imitation == flattery and all that.

    Along similar lines, check out the free Next.js templates: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

    If you want to build up from components instead, Tailwind offers a component library too: https://tailwindui.com/components

    For React, I prefer the astoundingly good MUI framework (amazing components with lots of customizability, a good enough default look, and great documentation): https://mui.com/ If you end up going this route, using their Figma kit (https://mui.com/store/items/figma-react/) plus the Refactoring UI book from above should allow you to whip up a pretty standard-looking, "pretty enough" design in very little time. And then implementing it using the actual MUI lib would just take a few days.

    There's also Ant Design: https://ant.design/

    And Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

    -----------

    For more theoretical stuff (i.e., less visual but still very valuable), the UX research group Nielsen Norman still has a treasure trove of valuable advice: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-ten-guidelines-for-home...

    You should know the basics of accessibility (beyond general usability, this alos means alt text, header levels, contrast ratios, readability, screen readers, keyboard navigation, special considerations for the hard of sight and hearing, etc.): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ or at least use an easy checklist tool like Microsoft's WCAG analyzer: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

  • accessibility-insights-web

    Accessibility Insights for Web

  • (I'm a frontend dev, but I came into the design side only later in my career, after having started as a full-stack programmer.)

    I think this book is probably the single best resource I've seen on the topic: https://www.refactoringui.com/

    It's a really easy-to-use format (one quick tip on each page, with clear examples).

    It's from the people who made Tailwind, a CSS framework that's basically a reimagining of Bootcamp for the Javascript/component era.

    Check out some of their templates: https://tailwindui.com/templates

    These are lookalike "modern" designs that you can pay to use, or just draw inspiration from. Imitation == flattery and all that.

    Along similar lines, check out the free Next.js templates: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js

    If you want to build up from components instead, Tailwind offers a component library too: https://tailwindui.com/components

    For React, I prefer the astoundingly good MUI framework (amazing components with lots of customizability, a good enough default look, and great documentation): https://mui.com/ If you end up going this route, using their Figma kit (https://mui.com/store/items/figma-react/) plus the Refactoring UI book from above should allow you to whip up a pretty standard-looking, "pretty enough" design in very little time. And then implementing it using the actual MUI lib would just take a few days.

    There's also Ant Design: https://ant.design/

    And Chakra UI: https://chakra-ui.com/

    -----------

    For more theoretical stuff (i.e., less visual but still very valuable), the UX research group Nielsen Norman still has a treasure trove of valuable advice: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/top-ten-guidelines-for-home...

    You should know the basics of accessibility (beyond general usability, this alos means alt text, header levels, contrast ratios, readability, screen readers, keyboard navigation, special considerations for the hard of sight and hearing, etc.): https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ or at least use an easy checklist tool like Microsoft's WCAG analyzer: https://accessibilityinsights.io/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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