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Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

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post #55

Hey guys, thanks for all the feedback. Right now Enterface is just a concept, hence no call to action. I would love to have it developed, if only for my own use! I'll need my own icon, too...

well, give http://Salon.io a spin .. here´s an invite for you http://salon.io/users/sign_up?token=H7DqXNBcUFAnXtRQYExr

I may or may have not hijacked that invite, sorry/thanks!

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#73
I'm really interested in this... just a shame you don't have a way for me to subscribe to an email list so I can see when you release it. Now I'll probably forget about it unless I happen to be online at the right time to see your actual launch post on HN.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#74
post #32

As a UX Designer, I'd say I've needed something like this: a true UI design app that only had the features I needed. None of Photoshop or Illustrator's extraneous features (with respect to a UI Designer's needs, anyway). One thing that would definitely make me try it is a bundled/stock icon set that is well-integrated into the app. Finding open-license icons for my mockups (or drawing my own) is actually the most lab…

Then until this app is ready, I would like to reccommend to you: http://thenounproject.com/

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#75
This looks awesome. I've been a Fireworks user for UI design for a few years now (switched from Photoshop). I'm utterly shocked anyone gets anything done in PS, it's so fiddly and doesn't serve even the most basic of requirements for a UI design app (align to canvas? pages? hello?).

Seen as Adobe is looking to kill Fireworks, it's not getting a retina update I was thinking of jumping ship to Sketch.

Weird that you didn't build the logo using it though, like Sketch did.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#76
post #48

Wow.. this has just about everything. Why not take just the most important layout and design features and create a tool that can output actual web pages? I'll tell you why. Because web developers code in CSS and HTML. If you can just export a web page, then it takes away their "programming" work. If we took 1/100th of the effort used to create mockup tools, we could have 10 really great graphical interactive web page…

WYSIWYG is dead

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#77
post #45

It'd be great if this could work with libraries of UI elements, so we could load in Twitter Bootstrap elements if our site uses that, or have the ability to create UI libraries of our own.

Isn't the idea of Bootstrap that you can just get a basic site up without actually a design step.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#78

This is awesome. If I can suggest something - it'd be amazing to export some kind of layer-based file format (PSD, really, though that tends to be hard). Your concept looks great for wireframing at a very refined level, but inevitably UI designers will want to go deeper with all the fanciness Photoshop provides. It'd be incredibly powerful for them to pull in a PSD where all the layers are already in place and ready…

IMHO all it really needs is the ability to link a PSD file as a static alpha transparent image and update whenever the file is updated.

Photoshop should only really be used for masking images and illustrating.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#79
post #7

The Flyout Tool is pretty novel. It's one UI quirk that bugs me in a lot of apps that support layering.

I was thinking the same thing re the coolness of it, but I don't have enough experience to say anything about novelty. If it is novel, OP's one-year patent clock starts today for the U.S., and the opportunity to patent in the rest of the world is now lost. It wouldn't surprise me if selling that feature to Adobe, Microsoft, or others could pay off more than the proposed (quite cool) app.

I find it amusing that you think Adobe would ever implement a feature that useful in their software.

Re: Show HN: Enterface, a UI design app concept I'm designing

#80
Small semi-relevant tip:

The slideshow after "Here's what it looks like" shouldn't alternate directions for the transition animation. You should make the screenshot come in from one direction if you press next and the other direction if you press back. This improves visual feedback for the user.

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