Author here. I'm a designer and it wasn't meant to be denigrating, but more of a statement that launching is hard and that it's OK to be embarrassed by the design of your MVP so you should ideally put very little time into it and more time on the core value of your product.

I can see how that doesn't come across the way I worded it though. I'll try to wordsmith that line. Thanks for the feedback!

Perhaps simply

> cross _visual_ design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff

I think that's inherently covered by the name 'mvp.'

Now that of course depends heavily on what you consider to be minimally viable but there's generally not an expectation of professional design work.

If you're the kind of person who reached for bootstrap or material UI or other not semantic, boilerplate frameworks this might be appealing.

I don’t even know what the author means. Design is hard stuff.

Exactly. Every time I have to do UI work for personal projects (I almost never do it for pro projects), they look like a-ess-ess. Design is very hard. I try to copy the looks of things I like and I get the rough feel of it, but the details, man. The detail and the subtle things. That's where the pros who know how to do UI earn their worth.

We are talking about MVPs here though...

> cross design off your list and get back to working on the hard stuff

That sentence made me consider Poe's Law for a while, considering the weird fruits HustleSpeak is bearing quite often. Going by the author's bio, I'm most likely wrong.

That's because this is styling. Not design.