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Re:Ask HN: How to create a portfolio without design skills? by Leftium on Sunday July 28, 2024 @05:06PM (#41095964)
There are many "design systems" you can use. Here are a few recommendations:

https://tailwindcss.com is known for utility-class based styling, but it's also a nice-looking design system.

In fact, they wrote a book: https://www.refactoringui.com

> Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer.

> Learn how to design beautiful user interfaces by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.

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https://clarity.design gives you:

- A nice-looking default/base design (basic responsive layout, styling, sizes, colors, icons, (light/dark) themes...)

- Pretty comprehensive UX guidelines (like when to use a snackbar vs alert vs toast vs banner vs modal[1])

- Framework agnostic web components (there is a slight bias towards Angular and even React/Vue)

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While not as comprehensive, https://picocss.com is my default go-to for giving my sites/apps nice-looking default styling with almost no work. Pico CSS is more of a semantic CSS library, but it is also a bit of a design system.

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https://getbootstrap.com is probably one of the most used design systems.

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[1]: https://clarity.design/documentation/notifications

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