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Is this mostly to find complementary colors for a brand? Just curious what the use case is (I'm not a designer)
There's an accompanying blog post here, surprised it's not higher: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
Great tool, a small suggestion: Let the user add a HEX color and then show hues before/after based on that. It would make this tool more useful.
I'm no designer, but I assume this is not a color palette generator, right? It's more of a "shade generator" that creates all the various shades of a single color? Update: After playing some more, it does in fact seem like you can generate pallets by adjusting the start and end hue. That being said, I have no idea how colors work. For example, I assume I can't just take 3 arbitrary colors from this tool and stick the…
Well, you kind of, sort of can. That is what this and similar tools are designed to help you with.
Think about this as a programming language library. It's kind of sort of there to help you accomplish that thing you have in mind, but you might still use it wrong it or it might just not be the right tool for the thing you have in mind or the thing you have in mind simply isn't really a thing.
The point being, you need to be able to reason about what you are doing and your status towards your goal in either case. Not in a "I can explain this" way, but in a "I think this is better than that other thing and it's getting closer to where I want it to be" way.
As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up. Couple this with Material-UI and a solid looking template and you could have a beautiful, custom landing page up a day. There are obviously UX and other issues that I struggle to excel at, but from a simple, consumer-facing perspective, I see UI getting more and more manageable.
There are obviously limitations to it, but for my use cases it's great.
As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up. Couple this with Material-UI and a solid looking template and you could have a beautiful, custom landing page up a day. There are obviously UX and other issues that I struggle to excel at, but from a simple, consumer-facing perspective, I see UI getting more and more manageable.
I struggle hard with the UX, but I'm amazed that with modern tools I can create a rudimentary, but clean design in Sketch, code it, and manage the infrastructure behind it.
Even 10 years ago, these were 3 to 5 completely distinct skillsets (designer, frontend, backend, infrastructure, DBA).
So glad this exists. I'm always looking for nice looking gradient sets that are more than 4-5 colors you get from Adobe Color. Great job!
As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up. Couple this with Material-UI and a solid looking template and you could have a beautiful, custom landing page up a day. There are obviously UX and other issues that I struggle to excel at, but from a simple, consumer-facing perspective, I see UI getting more and more manageable.
> As a non-designer, I am finding it easier and easier to get something professional looking up The reason you find it getting easier is not to be found in any of these tools, but in your repeated effort to "put something up" and getting better at it. You are learning how to design by doing design.