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Learn UI Design

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Learn UI Design is the company blog at learnui.design, writing about design. Since 2018, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Where's the AI design Renaissance?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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66mentions?
37HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2019

The full-length online course on UI design: color, typography, layout, design process, and more. Includes downloadable resources, homework, and a student community.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Where's the AI design Renaissance?
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-10-01
  2. Accessible Color Generator
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-03
  3. /
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-07-30
  4. Things a UX/UI Designer Should Know
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-04-08
  5. Laws of Locality: Where in your UI you should put certain controls
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-01
  6. Identifying Fonts: The Complete Guide
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-22
  7. iOS 13 design guidelines, templates, and downloads
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-15
  8. The Step-by-Step Guide for Pairing Fonts (With Examples)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-10
  9. The #1 Way to Spice Up Your Designs (and Create a More Cohesive Brand)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
  10. Learn UI Design – Course Reopens This Wednesday
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. beowulfey · 2019-09-20
    This is a great tool! I have also recently started using a divergent color palette[1] when designing figures for publication, it's amazing how much nicer it looks than, for example, default color schemes in most graphing software... Definitely going to bookmark this for future use. [1] https://learnui.design/tools/data-color-picker.html#divergen...

    Comment linking /tools/data-color-picker.html

    on “ColorBox by Lyft Design”
  2. stanislavb · 2019-08-18

    Submitted Rules for Intuitive UX as a story · 440 points

    HN discussion
  3. dceddia · 2021-07-30
    This stuff all falls under the umbrella of “design”. One thing that helped me a ton was the articles at https://learnui.design - especially the 2-part “Rules for Designing Gorgeous UI”. The course itself is also excellent.

    Comment linking /

    on “DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components”
  4. marban · 2022-05-27

    Submitted Learn the logic of great typography as a story · 197 points

    HN discussion
  5. news_to_me · 2018-08-21
    > Right now when I want something to look a particular way, I go into a CSS file, guess... This is what I used to do, before I started really getting into web design. Then I discovered Sketch, which really changed the way I think about it. When you design with CSS, you're also constantly struggling with responsiveness, HTML structure, and a bunch of little things that are sort of irrelevant to how it looks . Sketch…

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer”
  6. mooreds · 2021-06-27

    Submitted Tips for Better Signup / Login UX as a story · 194 points

    HN discussion
  7. PebblesRox · 2021-02-23
    I think this article is a lot more practical: https://learnui.design/blog/color-in-ui-design-a-practical-f... Eric Kennedy does a great job of giving me rules-of-thumb to work with so that I don't feel like I'm just making arbitrary adjustments to numbers. And I think the examples he provides look a lot better than the result of the original tutorial above.

    Comment linking /blog/color-in-ui-design-a-practical-framework.html

    on “Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (2016)”
  8. gregwolanski · 2025-09-25

    Submitted Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards) as a story · 131 points

    HN discussion
  9. jamesfisher · 2022-05-29
    What is that slightly blackletter font being used for the title? [1] I like it, but it seems to not be used in the interactive example. [1]: https://learnui.design/tools/img/typography-tutorial/tmatag-...

    Comment linking /tools/img/typography-tutorial/tmatag-good-lg.png

    on “Learn the logic of great typography”
  10. tobr · 2025-10-16

    Submitted Where's the AI design Renaissance? as a story · 104 points

    HN discussion
  11. david_allison · 2021-04-25
    Nielsen Norman Group[0] and their YouTube[1] are a goldmine "Learn UI Design"[2] provide some really high quality methodical videos[3] and content [0] https://www.nngroup.com/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2oCugzU6W8-h95W7eBTUEg [2] https://learnui.design/ [3] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakPr8lc7Zcowd8Cp2Uy_Eg

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What are some good resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?”
  12. feross · 2019-08-12

    Submitted Laws of Locality: Where in your UI you should put certain controls as a story · 32 points

    HN discussion
  13. oumua_don17 · 2024-10-21
    https://www.learnui.design

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?”
  14. riidom · 2022-06-09

    Submitted Interactive Typography Tutorial as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  15. tmsh · 2024-07-04
    These are all paid courses (not books) but for reference: - Beginner: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v3/ - Intermediate: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/fullstack-app-next-v3/ - Advanced: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/svelte-v2/ and https://frontendmasters.com/courses/sveltekit/ Honorable mentions: - https://www.joyofreact.com/ - https://css-for-js.dev/ - https://www.learnui.design/ fo…

    Comment linking /

    on “Books to Dive in into Fullstack Development”
  16. erikdkennedy · 2020-04-08

    Submitted Things a UX/UI Designer Should Know as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  17. oumua_don17 · 2022-06-18
    These are expensive but fantastic more than worth the cost courses. [1] [2] [1] https://learnui.design/ [2] https://learnui.design/courses/learn-ux-design.html

    Comment linking /courses/learn-ux-design.html

    on “Ask HN: Good resources for programmers to learn about UX/design?”
  18. alexpogosyan · 2025-10-01

    Submitted Where's the AI Design Renaissance? as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  19. tmsh · 2021-12-29
    If your team touches on frontend or it might ever want to develop internal tools: * https://learnui.design * https://css-for-js.dev * https://threejs-journey.com/ * https://frontendmasters.com

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How should I use my $2000 training budget before end of year?”
  20. FromTheArchives · 2025-10-13

    Submitted Where's the AI Design Renaissance? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. rchaud · 2020-01-06
    The PDF book "Refactoring UI" has been a helpful reference as it focuses on UI design for apps and websites. Some free articles from the book are available on the site: - Building your color palette: https://refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palet... - Labels are a last resort: https://refactoringui.com/previews/labels-are-a-last-resort/ This article from learnui.design provides a quick and dirty overvi…

    Comment linking /blog/why-beginning-designers-dont-need-grids-type-scales-color-theory.html

    on “Ask HN: What are comprehensive resources to learn digital product design?”
  22. lelanthran · 2025-10-02

    Submitted Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. ironskull · 2023-12-10
    It's definitely not cheap, but I would be surprised if Erik Kennedy's https://www.learnui.design isn't the best course out there. In fact, he has three courses: 1. UI design 2. UX design 3. Landing Page design I own all 3 and they are among the best purchases I've ever made, even at the cost. Erik is a former programmer who has taken the engineers mindset and systematically analyzed and broken down the various parts…

    Comment linking /blog/

    on “Ask HN: Best UI design courses for hackers?”
  24. throwup238 · 2024-01-24

    Submitted Learn the Logic of Great Typography as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. uxcolumbo · 2023-04-21
    What specifically do you want to get better at? Visual design or interaction design? Try these: https://hackdesign.org/ https://www.interaction-design.org/courses/ui-design-pattern... https://www.manning.com/books/usability-matters https://pragprog.com/titles/lmuse2/designed-for-use-second-e... https://designcode.io/ui-design-for-developers https://www.learnui.design/newsletter.html https://www.refactoringui.com/

    Comment linking /newsletter.html

    on “How to Become a “Designer Who Codes””
  26. mfsch · 2022-05-24

    Submitted Interactive Typography Tutorial as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. erikdkennedy · 2018-12-18
    No, not all of them. But much of the stuff that goes out to the newsletter is later posted on the blog ( https://learnui.design/blog ) in some format or another.

    Comment linking /blog

    on “Why Beginning Designers Don't Need to Learn Grids, Type Scales, or Color Theory”
  28. PebblesRox · 2021-02-23

    Submitted Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. dinkleberg · 2023-06-25
    I'm curious about this as well. I've gone through both of these courses: https://learnui.design and https://learnux.design and they were excellent. However, they are mostly focused on the practical side of things (which is good) and I think that building a conventional design base would also benefit me. This RISD program looks interesting.

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Design Equivalent to MIT Challenge?”
  30. kaisix · 2020-04-09

    Submitted Things a UX/UI Designer Should Know as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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