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24 alternatives to Refactoring UI: The Book
Make your ideas look awesome, without relying on a designer
Refactoring UI is a design book that teaches developers how to create visually appealing user interfaces independently. Written from a developer's perspective, it provides specific tactics and practical guidance for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Refactoring UI: The Book launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Practical UI▲429A book to learn a logic-driven approach to UI design
2023 · practical-ui.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of 100 UI/UX tips that I have collected since 2021
2021 · fifty.user-interface.io · its alternatives →
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Master UI Design▲317Learn to create beautiful and usable interfaces
2021 · uilearn.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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UI/UX design book by Creative Tim
2022 · creative-tim.com · its alternatives →
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21st.dev▲1,211I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →
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UI design book and bonus Figma design system starter kit
2024 · practical-ui.com · its alternatives →
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UI Sources▲418Curated interaction design patterns from the best apps
2018 · screensdesign.com · its alternatives →
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Checklist Design▲1,158The best UI and UX practices for production ready design
2019 · checklist.design · its alternatives →
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Layouts.dev▲699A notebook for building interfaces with Tailwind & shadcn/UI
2024 · layouts.dev · its alternatives →
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"Don't code your UI, Draw it !". Contribute to karanchahal/DoodleMaster development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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UI Patterns▲333Level up with interactive mobile design patterns
2016 · uipatterns.io · its alternatives →
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100 UI/UX Tips▲458A collection of tips to make your interface better
2021 · vpon.me · its alternatives →
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Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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UI Jar▲485Hand-picked design inspiration for your real life projects
2017 · uijar.com · its alternatives →
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Once UI 1.5▲299When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…
Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →
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UI Garage ▲425Specific mobile and web design patterns for your inspiration
2016 · uigarage.net · its alternatives →
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Make bad design better w/o messing w ext code behavior
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Human behavior is programmable. A book on product design.
2018 · thriveglobal.com · its alternatives →
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PATTTTERNS▲129Build your FREE UI Library based on real UX-UI patterns.
2021 · patttterns.com · its alternatives →
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