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Show HN: I wrote a book about forms usability (user-interface.io)
15 points by Akcium on Nov 27, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Hello.

I'm a developer who wrote a book about forms.

The thing is that I suffer from perfectionism. It's not "just to convince you guys that I wrote something cool". My book is pretty mediocre.

However in order to write it, I rented a hotel (!) in a different country because I couldn't find a quiet place where I could do this. And spent here ~1.5 month writing it.

I'm highly inspired by two guys. Those guys who wrote RefactoringUI (Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger) and Josh W Comeau (who made css-for-developers). Both of them made terrific products.

My dream is to get to their level.

But here is a thing: I planned to spend a whole year for this book, but due to the war (I'm from Russia) I had to migrate to another country. And a lot of things has happened. After suffering depressing (hello Fluvoxamine & Xanax), I finally made something that I can show.

If I get some results (yes, basically, sells), I'll dedicate the next year to get close to those guys mentioned above.

One of the ideas is to write a book (or even a course) about tables. They are complicated.

Another one is to upgrade https://history.user-interface.io/ to a printed book.

Many ideas, but it's hard to realize that the whole year was hectic due to the well-known sad events that happened.

One thing I want to mention about "what's cool about this offer". In the "Complete package" there is a discount for FramesX.

It's the first time I used a product in Figma and I used it for my illustrations. Next week this guy releases the second version. And I RELALY liked this one. So that might be even better than offer than my book :D




I didn’t have time to explore the page much but I noticed a small wording issue that I figured you’d want brought to your attention: The sentence “A book how to make your forms better.” is missing the word “about” (alternatively, “A book” can be replaced with “About”).

Best of luck with the book!


Oh thank you for this!


Can confirm this is a good book -- I've been subscribed to the newsletter for a while


Good to hear




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