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Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
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Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#102Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and a whiteboard in a meeting room and require to draw/erase fast iteratively... so it's the "right" tool for this job... But as soon as you use a computer instead of a pencil, why not have a "realistic" and "clean…
The reason that I've heard used repeatedly is that a shocking percentage of folks who aren't Technology producers can't separate visual quality from "doneness" of a project. If you show some business folks something that looks like it works, they'll mentally update the project to "Nearly done!" and then everything else after that becomes "Unreasonable delays."
Yes. This is precisely it. There aren’t two sides to this, just people that haven’t themselves experienced this absolutely inevitability. These sorts of inexact-looking tools are worth their weight in gold for that reason alone.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#103Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and a whiteboard in a meeting room and require to draw/erase fast iteratively... so it's the "right" tool for this job... But as soon as you use a computer instead of a pencil, why not have a "realistic" and "clean…
I usually dont use wireframes like this but one benefit is that it clearly communicates "this is NOT a finished design". Way to many times you bring a figma/mvp to get feedback on the "big picture" like the user flow etc but people get stuck on "the margin on that box is wrong" or "can we use another font?" when they see a design that looks like a "finished" product. You dont have that issue with wireframes.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#104Well done! Basic functionality feels pretty smooth and polished. One thing that I found myself very quickly missing: being able to snap shapes to each other or to the grid.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#105Looks nice, like excalidraw fine tuned for wireframes. However, I'm on Linux so I'm not able to use the app.
wireframesketcher[1] seems to do the same than Konty and runs on linux. I'm not related to them in any way but use this solution for years and I'm very happy with it (paying customer).
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#106No Linux support :'(
I don't understand these decisions. This is a collaborative tool. So you cannot say "only 5% of the audience is Linux users", but instead you'll rule out any team where at least one member is Linux user. Which is a far larger group. If I discount myself, that's 8 of 9 teams and startups I worked in last years where we needed wireframing. But I hope the Konty team has better numbers on this. I presume they know more t…
In the meantime, wireframesketcher[1] seems to do the same than Konty and runs on linux. I'm not related to them in any way but use this solution for years and I'm very happy with it (paying customer).
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#107Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and a whiteboard in a meeting room and require to draw/erase fast iteratively... so it's the "right" tool for this job... But as soon as you use a computer instead of a pencil, why not have a "realistic" and "clean…
This style says ‘it's a draft’ ‘it's an idea’. This is very important for communication within the team. It also allows you to concentrate on the essential points and not on the details (I don't like this font, the centring isn't perfect, etc.). To my great surprise, even for training courses, this style encourages questions and interaction with the students. There's a whiteboard feel to it which suggests that the pr…
Right. The more polished a rendering is, the more people are emotionally attached to it. Keeping it rough enables brainstorming, whatifs, etc.
Ages ago, when CAD was new, architects would show customers tracings (of plots). For all the same reasons.
The practice was so common that my buddy (also an architect) created a "hand plot" driver for AutoCAD. "Messy" hand drawn look instead of precise line work. The driver was huge popular.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#108This is great. Let you know that your blog seems that doesn't support RSS. I will like to follow the project there.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#109I thought the connecting arrows were bugged at first, then I realized it's a genius implementation. This alone makes me want to use this more than Figjam.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#110Just a question; I'm seeing so many tools pop up with these kinds of advanced whiteboard functionality, all the tools on the top and the tool palettes on the right. Is there a library or something that's being used to implement all of this? They all look the same.
Product looks good, though! Congrats!