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I'd like to see an additional question asked: How did you go about designing the interface of your app?

I'm blown away by how good these and so many "show HN" entries usually look. Everything I've put online is functional but looks so obviously "designed by a programmer" that it's embarrassing to mention.

Do people first work on a prototype and then run it by a graphic artist/UI designer to make it look decent? Where do you find these people?

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I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades, so I did all of my own design. I don't know that I could get hired by a big company to do design work, but I'm good enough to make my own UIs.

One thing that has helped a lot is doing a lot of "hallway" tests: you watch someone sign up, then you cringe at how bad your UI is, then you fix it.

(I'm the guy behind https://indiehackers.com/businesses/complice)

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