So basically a web frontend for Faker?
I haven't heard of Faker before, but it looks cool! (It's https://fakerjs.dev/, for anyone else who discovers this here)
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#32Needs more components! but I like this. should have lists too.
Thanks! What kinds of components? We're happy to add more
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#33Hey HN, Alex and Ben here, and we wanted to share a simple web app we created recently. UI Filler is a quick way to get placeholders for your designs. We do a lot of UI design and development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…
This makes a ton of sense as a browser extension, why not go that route? With this, I still have to google your site (or at least type it into the url bar if i remember the exact url)
How do you imagine using it as a browser extension?
Re: Show HN: UI Filler – placeholders for your designs
#34Hey HN, Alex and Ben here, and we wanted to share a simple web app we created recently. UI Filler is a quick way to get placeholders for your designs. We do a lot of UI design and development and frequently need to fill it with placeholder content. I usually just Google “Lorem ipsum” and end up on a site about the history of lorem ipsum, then copy and paste some small chunk of it to fill the field I need. Ben, who is…
Great idea, thanks for this! The only thing I would change is the background color of the site. The high visibility jacket green does not contrast well with the white boxes and dark gray text. I also get a bit of afterimage, but that's probably because of me.
That's a fair callout -- thanks. We will probably make the color a little less intense in the future, or at least give an option of muting it :)
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#35Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that! Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight…
That's a good point -- our goal is for everything on the site to be able to be used without any sort of attribution. I think it's that way now, but will go and double check everything we're using today
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Are those real peoples' photos? Certainly not the portrait photos — they’re unmistakably sourced from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (once you’ve seen enough of them, they’re impossible to miss…)
Right! We wanted to make sure not to use real people's photos. It is a bit eery that all of their eyes stay in the same place as you hit shuffle...
What has been seen, cannot be unseen...
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#37If you aren't testing your interface with names like Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard von Habsburg-Lothringen, you're doing it wrong. My favorite town is Chrząszczyżewoszczyce, powiat Łękołody: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jaMcIbIWt_4 My favorite country is Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sov…
Once this becomes the next decacorn, we're going to get Ferdinand Z. M. B. K. M. O. A. B. L. von Habsburg-Lothringen to be our spokesman. Heck, Ferdinand -- if you're in the comments, you can be our spokesman now if you want
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#38Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that! Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing info would still give me a little pause before trying this for anything but a personal project. (I recognize the 'fake logos' from logoipsum.com, they don't require attribution but you miiiiight…
I had the same reaction and won't want to risk using photos that a larger company might try to claim copyright over later.https://www.uifiller.com/images/portraits/anon-6.jpg is https://unsplash.com/photos/lknvOcns4zM which lists a "Free to use under the Unsplash License" (https://unsplash.com/license) but it's not obvious.
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#39An alternative: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/content-first-design/
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#40This used¹ content from logoipsum who explicitly state you cannot use their logos for this purpose:
"You can not:
Re-distribute/re-package as means of creating similar logo placeholder website to Logoipsum.com and/or similar to Logoipsum Figma Plugin."
see: https://logoipsum.com/license/
1. edit: This originally said 'uses' but the author changed it as soon as they were made aware.