As many programmers, I have always thought web design is a discipline best reserved for people doing art and design. You know, the hipster with his MacBook, his pletora of Adobe suites, and the huge time spent learning to use them.

I come from a background of system administration and networking, always fascinated by the obscure backend’s thing happening behind what you see on your screen. Furthermore, I started web development for the sole purpose of building Jib.li, as a CoFounder and CTO on this project, and as a team which had no money to hire a full time designer.

Needless to say I boarded the UI Design ship on the wrong foot.

In this first article I am going to share my experience on how I got passionate about creating and designing a User Interface and what I learned from all the resources shared on HN and Hack Design lessons which helped me redesign Jib.li.

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