<story><title>Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer</title><url>https://www.refactoringui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pazimzadeh</author><text>Design is how it works, not how it looks. This article seems to mainly be talking about the &amp;quot;polish&amp;quot; of a design. There are more important principles which don&amp;#x27;t have anything to do with polish, such as not putting the Cancel button next to the Ok button.&lt;p&gt;More like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lawsofux.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lawsofux.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asktog.com&amp;#x2F;atc&amp;#x2F;principles-of-interaction-design&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asktog.com&amp;#x2F;atc&amp;#x2F;principles-of-interaction-design&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nngroup.com&amp;#x2F;articles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nngroup.com&amp;#x2F;articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recommend prototyping the flow&amp;#x2F;feel of the app before working on the polish, or the functionality:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;principle.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;principle.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Uehreka</author><text>&amp;gt; Design is how it works, not how it looks.&lt;p&gt;After over a decade of people jumping into these discussions with this line, I’ve gotta push back: Design is also how things look, and how things look can be important.&lt;p&gt;Consumers care about how things look. If we dismiss presentation and drive people towards UX stuff every time it comes up, then the people we talk to are going to end up having good ideas that no one buys because the packaging is a mess.&lt;p&gt;Yes: If you have a pretty modal but it can’t be dismissed by clicking outside of it, that’s Bad Design. But when you’ve hammered in all those errant nails and built something that works well, often you look at it and go “I wish it weren’t so ugly”. And we do need books&amp;#x2F;resources to give people the building blocks they need to make an app that people will agree is “basically good-looking”. (And then hopefully more advanced books&amp;#x2F;resources about particular styles so people can develop their own stylistic voice)</text></comment>
<story><title>Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer</title><url>https://www.refactoringui.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pazimzadeh</author><text>Design is how it works, not how it looks. This article seems to mainly be talking about the &amp;quot;polish&amp;quot; of a design. There are more important principles which don&amp;#x27;t have anything to do with polish, such as not putting the Cancel button next to the Ok button.&lt;p&gt;More like this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lawsofux.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lawsofux.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asktog.com&amp;#x2F;atc&amp;#x2F;principles-of-interaction-design&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;asktog.com&amp;#x2F;atc&amp;#x2F;principles-of-interaction-design&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nngroup.com&amp;#x2F;articles&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nngroup.com&amp;#x2F;articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I recommend prototyping the flow&amp;#x2F;feel of the app before working on the polish, or the functionality:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;principle.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;principle.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petilon</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Design is how it works, not how it looks.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, it is not. If you&amp;#x27;re Steve Jobs then yes, but otherwise how it looks and how it works are usually two different job functions. People who are good at visual design are not usually knowledgeable enough to do functional design, and people who are good at functional design are not necessarily good at visual design.</text></comment>