How are people designing their MVPs?

Question

I’ve started up a new Rails project and am trying to figure out the best approach for design. The main options I’ve figured out so far are:
• Simple.css (current) - great for prototyping, not so great for an actual launch
• Bootstrap - incredibly popular, but the designs seem a bit dated
• TailwindCSS - beautiful, but seems like overkill for an MVP. Also the learning curve is steep
• Hand-rolled - creating your own them from scratch seems like a good option, but a lot of work that may be redundant because of the other CSS frameworks. I’m also getting back into design so I’m a bit rusty

I’ve also noticed some similarities in projects built by devs on this site (e.g. fonts, emojis, etc.). What would you all recommend?

Will Olson · Accepted Answer

At the moment I'm building out an idea I had for an email newsletter service that doesn't do a bunch of creepy email tracking: #slimnewsletter

Jeff Andersson · Answer

I just started with Tailwind after some time rolling everything on my own. I purchased tailwind ui and it is really good for just smashing things out. However I've found tailwind can be a bit tough to setup and they rely on a bunch of plugins if you want to really get the most out of it.

So if you're going with Tailwind, I only recommend so if you're using Vue or React since it will have the most smooth experience. It kind of requires npm if you want to use the plugins afaik.

fsd sdf · Answer

Regarding Tailwind, you could try daisyui -> https://daisyui.com/. Looks not bad

Advait Saravade · Answer

Plain ol HTML + CSS + JS for me. I'm probably the minority though.

Rich Taylor · Answer

What are you building Will?

fsd sdf · Answer

Yeah, It seems like Tailwind UI is a perfect starting point!

Will Olson · Answer

Yah I'm leaning that direction, at least for the MVP

Will Olson · Answer

Thanks Maria, I'll check that out! Your project Sustinero has a super clean design, I really like it 👍

Maria Zentsova · Answer

I really liked Chakra UI, was much easier for me than bootstrap.

Maria Zentsova · Answer

Thank you so much @thinkolson ! To be honest, I have zero sense of style, so just used default chakra settings :)

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