Ask HN: How do you do webdesign/frontends when you are a backend engineer?

TL;DR As a single founder/coder/hobbyist how do you do webdesign / frontend of a web service you build when all you ever did was devops/backend engineering?

Long story: I wish to build a site relevant to my passion (travelling) which I think could also be very useful to other travellers. I wouldn't call it a "startup" by who knows - it might turn into one.

The issue: all I ever did and enjoyed was the invisible part of web services - server setup and management, deployments, monitoring, performance tweeks. But the core functionality of my "startup" will need a slick and modern responsive web interface. It will be close to impossible to use templates or CMSes like wordpress for it.

I enjoy reading about new UI toolkits, JS libraries and CSS helpers. I even built a slick and modern submitting form with PureCSS ! ;-) But no doubt I have no "taste of art / design" so I will never be able to do anything close as my friend did with html tables and gifs for spacing 10 years ago.

How do you, fellow engineers, coupe with that? I do not want it to block me from working on my project.