In this episode, Adam is joined by Steve Schoger to talk about five ways developers can get better at designing their own projects.

Show Notes

Topics include:

• How to pick great fonts
• Choosing a color scheme for your project
• Designing in greyscale
• Recreating existing interfaces from scratch
• Recommended design tools
• What you should design first on a new page
• Strategies for making things look professional without graphic design skills

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Links:

• Steve's Blog
• Little UI Details, a collection of Steve's hot design tips
• Google Fonts, prefiltered
• "12 Google Fonts You Can't Go Wrong With", by Steve
• System Font Stack courtesy of CSS-Tricks
• Inter UI font family (formerly "Interface")
• WhatFont Chrome Extension
• Fonts In Use
• Dribbble color picker
• "Color in UI Design" by Erik Kennedy (great resource on HSL)
• Sketch, design tool for macOS
• Figma, cross-platform design tool
• "Building a professional design tool for the web", on how Figma is written in C++ and compiled to asm.js
• "Epicenter Design" by 37signals
• Doodle, example of a small UI
• Example login page, from Shippo
• Refactoring UI "Redesigning Laravel.io" case study
• Zondicons, Steve's free SVG icon set
• Hero Patterns, Steve's free SVG background pattern gallery
• Pushsilver, example of Hero Patterns in use
• Heroicons, Steve's premium marketing icon kit

What is Full Stack Radio?

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.