Why not create crappy frontend to validate demand for MVP then hire a designer? Designer is cheap.
I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
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#22Why not create crappy frontend to validate demand for MVP then hire a designer? Designer is cheap.
You can directly start coding in Veryfront Studio using the same components from the Figma Library as ready-made React components. Having tools for both designers and developers which integrate is key imo.
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#24I would love to have a text box in Figma and then just type in what I want. "Design a basic login screen. Change red for yellow. Move the layer up front." Is anyone working on this at Figma?
No need to do it in Figma. Soon your OS will be able to do it, and it will be able to use all apps on your system to create a design, not just one app.
Interesting. Are you thinking of an agentic system here?
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#25I'm going to be very naive here as this isn't my space at all. Are these open sourced? If not these, are there react components I can grab for basic front end projects that won't run afoul of licensing?
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#26Looks nice but I just wish every new thing wasn’t React based
Re: I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
#27I would love to have a text box in Figma and then just type in what I want. "Design a basic login screen. Change red for yellow. Move the layer up front." Is anyone working on this at Figma?
Somewhat tangential but I've found Claude 3.5 to be ridiculously good at doing this kind of prototyping with React, and you get the preview immediately in the artifact pane to the right of the chat. Mind you I don't ever use React (I'm writing a desktop app in Rust), so I'm probably as unbiased an audience as it gets.
Here are a couple of examples of things people asked for help with and I just iterated with Claude for 5-10 minutes on (code upfront and gif demo at the bottom):
https://gist.github.com/airstrike/7ae444de207e679adca7be6faa...
https://gist.github.com/airstrike/e0e47eaab733277b537923c4d3...
I think given the sheer amount of training data on React, these models tend to really hit it out of the park when they are allowed to use it. Part of me thinks the best approach is to have it model in React first and then translate it to whatever other language/framework you need it in
Re: I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping
#28I'm going to be very naive here as this isn't my space at all. Are these open sourced? If not these, are there react components I can grab for basic front end projects that won't run afoul of licensing?
Yes, all components and templates are open source. Both Figma and React components.
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#29Looks nice but I just wish every new thing wasn’t React based
Thanks for the valid feedback. What is/would be your preferred stack?
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#30I would love to have a text box in Figma and then just type in what I want. "Design a basic login screen. Change red for yellow. Move the layer up front." Is anyone working on this at Figma?
Uizard does exactly this: https://uizard.io/
Disclaimer: the founder is a friend of mine