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This is cool. I like the concept. I'm hoping that someone can create a web app that reduces the need for Photoshop. You guys are off to an auspicious start. Great work! My only comment is that the UI was confusing for me. After 60 seconds of playing around, here are a few ideas to consider (if you wish): 1) The "inspector" window on the right seemed to change a lot. I know contextual "inspectors" are standard UI prac…
As for the circles, we thought they looked better than squares.
We've been getting tons of response on the number in the middle of the circle; it is the stroke width.
The 'inspector' (good name, btw) needs work. It definitely needs better layout and labeling.
Re: challenges. Noted.
Overall, thanks for the feedback. Know that we are integrating this into our todos. :)
Just a drawing tool in the browser. This doesn't do anything different than Photoshop or Omnigraffle, if the web designer is smart enough to reuse layers / components. It could be a really useful though if it had support for more than absolute-positioned, fixed-sized elements, and used the browser's layout engine instead. Today's biggest problem is that web designers use Photoshop for coming up with mockups and then…
I think this is great for prototyping ideas. Using Photoshop for web design is an approximation at best.
I do both design and development and I find I use very different parts of my brain when doing one or the other. For me, it's important to stay far away from any kind of code until it's actually time to start implementing. Otherwise, I fall back to predictable habits.
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I think this is great for prototyping ideas. Using Photoshop for web design is an approximation at best.
True, but this is just a different sort of approximation, too. Layouts where all the elements are absolutely positioned don't work in the real world, so the markup and css will have to be 60%+ rewritten and will likely not look exactly as it's laid out here.
We could build an entire product just trying to generate semantic, reflowable markup from a design.
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The hard part about using the browser's layout engine is that it is limiting to the designer. We'd have to snap things into say, floating position, etc. And we'd have to know exactly what the designer was thinking when they're dragging some element around. Or they would have to know about floats, and how to use them. We think (right now) that the best way around this is some kind of constraint system, like CAD apps h…
I think what you have is great and I think you should run with what people are seeing this as "awesome" for, design prototyping. I think making this into anything that generates layout or uses the browser engine is going to be either: much harder than you think, or: will lose much of the functionality that you can allow for now via "do whatever, drag/drop, absolute positioning".
Very cool interface. Any a very nice usage of keyboard shortcuts. Can Easel output an entire web page? - meaning can I layout an entire page then get a zipped download of the page plus any CSS and JavaScript resources?
Just a drawing tool in the browser. This doesn't do anything different than Photoshop or Omnigraffle, if the web designer is smart enough to reuse layers / components. It could be a really useful though if it had support for more than absolute-positioned, fixed-sized elements, and used the browser's layout engine instead. Today's biggest problem is that web designers use Photoshop for coming up with mockups and then…
The hard part about using the browser's layout engine is that it is limiting to the designer. We'd have to snap things into say, floating position, etc. And we'd have to know exactly what the designer was thinking when they're dragging some element around. Or they would have to know about floats, and how to use them. We think (right now) that the best way around this is some kind of constraint system, like CAD apps h…
True, and the even harder part is building a system that treats that as a feature rather than a bug.
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I think what you have is great and I think you should run with what people are seeing this as "awesome" for, design prototyping. I think making this into anything that generates layout or uses the browser engine is going to be either: much harder than you think, or: will lose much of the functionality that you can allow for now via "do whatever, drag/drop, absolute positioning".
I totally agree. I've been wanting an app like this for the last 6 months (wondering why one didnt already exist), and a lack of fluid layout doesnt put me off at all. The one thing I really want is realtime collaborative use, ala google docs (Firebase should make that easy).