Ask HN: I'm bad at design, which stops me from finishing side projects. Advice?

• shadcn/ui

  136 56,834 9.3 TypeScript

  Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.

  

What stack are you using?

I personally recommend utilizing readily available components:

https://ui.shadcn.com/

https://mui.com/

https://semantic-ui.com/

etc..

• material-ui-docs

  122 311 10.0 TypeScript

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

  

What stack are you using?

I personally recommend utilizing readily available components:

https://ui.shadcn.com/

https://mui.com/

https://semantic-ui.com/

etc..

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• mvp

  18 4,867 4.7 HTML

  MVP.css — Minimalist classless CSS stylesheet for HTML elements

Buy a bootstrap theme, they're cheap and they offer a lot out of the box. Better solution than bare tailwind, which actually requires you to know how to design. I used tailwind on my personal website, result was good but I had to do a lot more than if I used a bootstrap theme.

You make your app ui work within the boundaries of your bootstrap theme and you're good for 96% of the design stuff.

If you don't want to even learn bootstrap css classes and stuff, consider https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

It's amazing, you drop it and you have a theme based on the html only. I use this mostly for prototyping though

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