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Ask HN: How to learn UI/UX as a data/BE engineer?

51 points thenaturalist | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source

Hi HN,

coming from a data/ BE background I feel extremely familiar with reasoning about systems and performance from the cloud-infra to the pipeline stack level. Or I'm super familiar with data visualization.

I feel like falling off a cliff when trying to extrapolate that knowledge to the more customer-facing world.

Despite having some tool ideas in the past, I realized I shy away from going towards the front end because I really lack any conecptual frame of how to think about and subsequently implement UI or UX.

I don't mean that in a nitty-gritty-designer focussed way but more like first-principle understanding:

What makes a good color scheme?

What makes a great wording and why?

What's a good form of presenting information?

I feel like I can recognize good UI/UX when I see it (as is often the case with HN company LPs), but I'd totally fail at distilling check boxes that such good examples tick.

Any pointers to how I can learn about these worlds and develop an understanding of what principles UI/UX should follow?

1. Rut7 ◴[22 Oct 24 07:58 UTC] No.41912179[source]▶
Hey, the best way to learn UI UX is to do a project with a friend (or make online friends in a community like 10k designers) who is already at a good level at UI UX. This friend will guide you through entire process of learning and designing . Make sure to communicate your new to UI UX to your friend. I'm from data background too and I learnt UI UX by doing an end to end project - fitness App with my friend who knew UI UX thoroughly.

you could read more about this on my blog - https://medium.com/@Rutuja.Kelkar/how-i-started-my-ui-ux-des...