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Antoine Plu

Refactoring UI: The Book — Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer

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Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer.

Learn how to design beautiful user interfaces by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

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Joshua Pinter
$79 USD for an eBook?! Me no think so! Make a print edition for $29 USD and I'm all in. Otherwise, this is outrageously priced.
Helen
@joshuapinter $79 for an ebook of years of professional real world experience and top notch in-depth step by step tutorial videos. If these co-founders put in just 1% of amount of effort into this book and it's content as much as they did w/ their marketing your $79 didn't go towards some curated old ass blog posts being sold as an ebook. Plus, if $79 is too steep for you, send the link to your family and hint this would be a great Christmas present ;-)
Joshua Pinter
@helengriffinjr You sound like a rich shill. The last people I would get to spend this much money on an eBook is my family.
Helen
@joshuapinter nope not a rich shill... I just learned over the years to invest in myself if I'm going to grow my business, finances. You can always go the sales route and sell a product or service to fund purchasing an ebook or whatever you choose to educate yourself. Financial independence and generational wealth isn't built by complaining how expensive something is. If I see something outside my price range I say to myself Aw hell nah but I keep it moving. By no means do I waste my talents on ruining another man's chance to feed his family w/ negative reviews about price. BONUS tip - get 4 of your dev buddies to chip in $16 to buy RefactoringUI if you see value in it's content. Drop that bad boy into google drive and y'all share the ebook. Start your own bootstrapped startup library. BOOM! Good luck, bruh!
Joshua Pinter
@helengriffinjr It's clear you have very little idea what you're talking about. You have no idea what my current financial status is and whether or not I'm already financially independent (Hint: I'm doing just fine, thanks - and very little luck was actually required. Mostly just a lot of hard work and constantly increasing value for our customers.) This has nothing to do with that. It has to do with something that is poignant whether you have a single dollar in the bank or ten million. That magic word I've already used: "value". Never forget it. It can be used for a foot long Subway sandwich and it can be used for a 2010 Porsche Turbo. It transcends absolute monetary amounts and takes a lot of factors in to attribute a more meaningful worth to a product or service. Even more important is that Product Hunt was not built to be limited to positive reviews and to mute objections and negative feedback. That's how we learn. I know this because I've launched real things on here before. My feedback on pricing could be some of the most valuable feedback they get. If this was _my_ eBook I know I would certainly appreciate the feedback and take it to heart, even if I disagreed with it. Anyway, I don't have all night to wax lyrical, I've gotta get busy starting my "own bootstrapped startup library".
Helen
@joshuapinter I wish you, your family and your venture peace, joy and success in the new year. Take care.
Justin Jackson

Everyone who works on the web should understand design: software developers, product managers, etc...

This is the best resource I've found on the topic.

Pros:

A no-brainer for web professionals

Cons:

Why didn't I think of this? 😜

Antoine Plu
Hunter
Big day for product people who wants to learn design, Refactoring UI is out 🎉 As a designer, I can say the content is gorgeous, full of great tips. Lot of knowledge and tricks designers are learning over the years by doing, you can jump start your knowledge right now! Congrats to @steveschoger & @adamwathan for their awesome work and the new opportunities they're providing 👏🏻
Taurean Bryant
Definitely pricier than I thought it'd be and I'd love to see that cost subsidize access to those who couldn't otherwise afford it but it was still an easy decision to buy based on all of the content I've seen leading up to this release. edit It'd also be great to see this in at least an iBooks format in addition to just PDF, especially for the price.
wojtek
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Your Twitter threads have been a huge help. The past few years I've transitioned more into a developer role and my design got rusty. Being tasked with designing things for startups has been a stressful experience because my expectations were always higher than my output, and I've ended up unhappy or stuck with my work. I'm sure this book and resources will help overcome these issues and make me a better designer. Glad this is finally out! 🙌️
Dan Edwards
I love Steve's tips on Twitter and always enjoyed his YouTube videos, this book looks like it'll be killer! Congrats on the launch @steveschoger 🎉
Shivam Dewan
Hey 👋 @steveschoger @adamwathan, both thanks and congratulations for the book 🙌 I myself is an UX designer and find these tips immensely useful and practical! Any special discount for Product hunt community? 😋
Ahmad Awais ⚡

There's something about Steve's design tips that gets stuck with me for the good. His tips and generally always helpful attitude has been a huge help for me when I was designing the landing page for my VSCode.pro course.

This is a no-brainer purchase. Period. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Pros:

Steve's Design tips have always helped me

Cons:

NONE!

Matthew Morek
@steveschoger I’d get the book if it was available in any other format than PDF. Can’t stand long form reads on screen, unless it’s a properly formatted eBook (ePub, mobi, iBooks). Also, why no print version? The medium IS crucial here.
Lee Qixian
Ah you guys are the one that did the article on the 7 tips to cheat design, damn I loved that article. I'm sure the book is awesome as well.
Brandon Bayer
I'm surprised so many people are complaining about the price! I honestly expected full price to be more like $500 which is more inline with the value packed here. Awesome job guys!!
Enrique Benitez
This is awesome, I've been following ur twitter tips for a while and this is really valuable! Buying now 👍
Vince Mitchell

I've just started going through this material and it's an amazing resource that I'll be using daily. Can't wait to make it all the way through the book and videos.

Pros:

Such great content

Cons:

Is more content possible?

Hans Pagel
great work! would love to see the component gallery as a website (images of the components would be enough), to quickly open it and discuss possibilities with students, designers or even clients (e. g. application layouts). or in other words: I hate PDF.
Yvo Schaap
Just bought your complete package (312mb)! Thank you. Great marketing with the Twitter threads... congrats on shipping
Henning Leutz

I'm really looking forward to going through all the content and building new products with it. I've been following Steve and Adam for the last few months and I've been really excited about every insight.

Pros:

the quality of this stuff is extremly awesome

Cons:

could have come earlier :D

Peter Suhm

Read this book in one go. It only took 1.5 hours, which is something other books should aspire to achieve. I don't know that I've ever consumed that much knowledge about a topic in such a short time. It's really packed full of actionable tips.

Pros:

Extremely actionable

Cons:

Steve doesn't have time to design my app

Kevin Reevers

If anyone is in the proces of bulding applications, especially D2C-esque, this provides high-quality detailed information in not only how to design an enjoyble application, but how not to get caught in some of the pitfalls of design/prototyping stages.

Pros:

Consise, yet exhaustively extensive.

Cons:

Can't find one

Stefan Bauer

The absolute madness. Adam and Steve bring the world of development and design to a common point, so that every developer is able to learn design. And I promise you that you too can do that with this book. For this price? I would have paid a lot more.

Pros:

- Authentic authors

- Your design skills will improve drastically

- No-brainer for that price

Cons:

None

Liam McKay
Huge fan of the work that always went into the design tips, the YouTube videos and the write-ups, so it makes sense that this book is going to kick-ass too!