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Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#11

Pretty awesome app. The interface is a little confusing and it's annoying to see a welcome note on every visit. Consider adding tips to give new users a quick overview of how it works? Something like what tutorialize.me offers would be really useful. (I'm a co-founder of tutorialize.me).

Thanks mrgreenfur. It's definitely something we're planning on adding in the future. We'll be sure to take a look at tutorialize.me when we get started on it.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#12

Pretty awesome app. The interface is a little confusing and it's annoying to see a welcome note on every visit. Consider adding tips to give new users a quick overview of how it works? Something like what tutorialize.me offers would be really useful. (I'm a co-founder of tutorialize.me).

The welcome note is only on the bootstrap demo. You can signup from the homepage: http://easel.io , or from the 'I want an account' button on the demo. Documents you create with your own account wont have the welcome popup.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#13
You should post a simple guided tour like how Yahoo does for their first time E-mail users or how google does for the new compose button. The app itself is excellent and your target audience I believe is not everyone, but specific web-designers with HTML+CSS knowledge - So you should try to make that clear. Right now, it looks as if it's meant for everyone and hence the "too complex" complaints. I'd give this a 5-star rating. I'm a designer myself and this would save me tons of time.

Keep up the good work, thanks! :)

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#15
I have been looking for something like this (I´m trying to test some ideas), I think is a necessary tool. But I find it confusing, make it more intuitive, after all this is not for an expert coder, is more for people who doesn´t know how to do it, isn´t it?.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#16

Looks great! I'd be curious to know how it compares to Divshot ( http://divshot.com )?

Looks like there are now three serious competitors in this space:

- Jetstrap (http://jetstrap.com/)

- Divshot (http://divshot.com/)

- Easel (https://www.easel.io/)

I could see a company like Adobe wanting to get in on this.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#17
post #11

Pretty awesome app. The interface is a little confusing and it's annoying to see a welcome note on every visit. Consider adding tips to give new users a quick overview of how it works? Something like what tutorialize.me offers would be really useful. (I'm a co-founder of tutorialize.me).

Thanks mrgreenfur. It's definitely something we're planning on adding in the future. We'll be sure to take a look at tutorialize.me when we get started on it.

Cool. Shoot me a note via the contact form when you get into it and I'll help you out!

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#19
post #13

You should post a simple guided tour like how Yahoo does for their first time E-mail users or how google does for the new compose button. The app itself is excellent and your target audience I believe is not everyone, but specific web-designers with HTML+CSS knowledge - So you should try to make that clear. Right now, it looks as if it's meant for everyone and hence the "too complex" complaints. I'd give this a 5-sta…

Thanks neya, we'd love to see what you come up with in Easel.

As for the tour, the feedback here has been strongly in favor of a more guided introduction so we'll see what we can cook up.

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