103: Steve Schoger - Design Q&A + Refactoring UI Details

Questions include:

• What's your process for getting started on a new design?
• How do you make your designs feel original?
• How do you choose fonts for a new project?
• How do you make complex tables look good, and how do you make them work on mobile?
• What's the best way to style multiple secondary actions on a page?

Refactoring UI topics include:

• Structuring the book to make it easy to read in a short amount of time
• An overview of the sections and chapters in the book
• What's covered in the screencasts
• How the included color palettes are designed and why they are more useful than the color palettes you're used to generating online
• What the font recommendation guide includes and how it's organized
• Details about the included icon set
• What's inside the component gallery, and how it's meant to be used
• The release date! 🎉

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Links:

• Refactoring UI
• 🔥 Design Tips
• Fonts In Use
• "Getting Real" by Basecamp, our inspiration for structuring the book
• Refactoring UI on YouTube
• Preview of the Refactoring UI icon set
• Preview of the Refactoring UI color palettes
• Preview of the Refactoring UI component gallery

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