Solve common application design and usability issues with flair! These essential design and UX techniques will help you create good user experiences, iterate smoothly on frontend features, and collaborate effectively with designer colleagues.In Design for Developers, author Stephanie Stimac shares the unique insights she's learned as a designer on the Microsoft Developer Experiences team. This one-of-a-kind book provides a developer-centric approach to the essential design fundamentals of modern web applications. You'll learn how to craft a polished visual design with just color, space, and typeface, and put all your new skills into practice to design a website from scratch. Covering every part of the design process, Design for Developers lays out everything you need to deliver great UX, intuitive UIs, and beautiful frontends. You'll get useful techniques for visual design elements of color, typography, and layout, and you'll learn how the components of design and UX fit together in practice. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.