What are your favourite resources to learn about UX/design? Doesn't have to be web-related.
In many of the visual examples, the recommended approach looks worse than the criticized approach, and in some cases is much less parsable. A phrase like "Use more whitespace" isn't some simple-yet-woke millennial web mantra, it's just crappy advice, too vague to be useful and vague enough to be harmful.
Truly, some of these examples are the antithesis to good design. The chapters of the book seem highly opinionated and forcing a particular set of (unvalidated) opinions upon me instead of generalized, objectively applicable tools.
Many an engineer-designed page or screen would have benefited from some of the basic principles here, including "use more whitespace."
Also, as a rule, don't listen to HN for design opinions. Many people here talk about design like a bad programmer talks about principles: "Always have 100% unit test coverage" or "Functions should never be longer than 7 lines".
My recent favorite was when an article introduced an unusual, award-winning checkbox design for a very specific use-case, and a number of comments completely missed the context [1].
Then there are the publications from people in the industry that can be interesting, but that's case by case. You'll have better results for specific problems like building and maintaining a design system.
You also have the UX collective (http://uxdesign.cc/) but their articles are hit or miss. Good ones at least provide references for you to explore deeper.
Making UI that looks good (at least decent): https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/examples/
For UX, read Nielsen Norman and Dr. Weinschenks book "100 things every designer needs to know about humans".
https://designsystemsrepo.com/
Awesome Design Systems
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usabilit...
For design itself I'm just not that way inclined and use existing frameworks instead.
