As a primarily backend dev, one thing that has recently helped me with my design skills is to use page builders.
I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years and the code they generate is actually pretty solid. I’m the kind of person where I think I can tell what good design is, but I can’t actually design it from scratch myself.
I recently bought a subscription to https://shuffle.dev/ which has a page builder for tailwind, bootstrap, material, and bulma and it’s saved me a lot of time and generated some really slick looking sites.
A $20 subscription is definitely a lot cheaper than a designer and is faster than waiting for a design and then building it yourself. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, but would highly recommend it as a part of your workflow.
I'm interested in this idea but, as feedback to shuffle, their demo sucks.
1. There are essentially three different types of UI component you can use within the demo, everything else is disabled. This makes building anything other than a landing page, within the demo, impossible.
2. The UI components that I could see (in five minutes of clicking around) are what I would term 'brochure-ware' components with nothing provided for forms etc.
3. The first thing that happens after you choose between bootstrap, tailwind etc is you get asked to choose a component library. As a non-designer I don't know on what basis I would choose between these and there's only a very ephemeral description of their characteristics. In my case I'm very interested in A11Y support and there's no indication to what degree, if any, those component libraries would help with that.
I'm not here to bag this entirely, I can see how it would be a significant accelerator in some cases but I do think addressing the above points would help.
BTW it's USD24/month or USD99/year from my point of view but it's possible they're A/Bing pricing.
I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years and the code they generate is actually pretty solid. I’m the kind of person where I think I can tell what good design is, but I can’t actually design it from scratch myself.
I recently bought a subscription to https://shuffle.dev/ which has a page builder for tailwind, bootstrap, material, and bulma and it’s saved me a lot of time and generated some really slick looking sites.
A $20 subscription is definitely a lot cheaper than a designer and is faster than waiting for a design and then building it yourself. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, but would highly recommend it as a part of your workflow.