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Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by dwwoelfel »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #41

I think something that could really help this app succeed, is sharable UI elements. There are a lot of common things I don't want to redraw (date pickers, dropdowns, file uploads, etc, etc). However, I don't want these provided as a static set, because the web and my needs are always changing/growing. If I was able to browse the community's drawings and add them to my profile for quick insertion into a mockup that wo…

Curious what you think of our current approach to this.

We're worried about people spending a lot of time searching for the perfect component instead of just sketching out their ideas. That's one of the big problems that we see with tools like Omnigraffle.

But we recognize that people can work a lot faster if they don't have to keep sketching out the same components in every wireframe. Our approach is to use copy/paste as a mechanism for creating custom components.

We're already keeping track of everything you copy/paste from the canvas. You can delete them, star them, and insert them into the canvas from the "Clipboard history" in the menu at the top left. Our next step is to make them easier to insert into the canvas.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by [deleted] »

1qaz2wsx3edc wrote: post #41

I think something that could really help this app succeed, is sharable UI elements. There are a lot of common things I don't want to redraw (date pickers, dropdowns, file uploads, etc, etc). However, I don't want these provided as a static set, because the web and my needs are always changing/growing. If I was able to browse the community's drawings and add them to my profile for quick insertion into a mockup that wo…

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Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by dwwoelfel »

alextgordon wrote: post #49

This is awesome. One tiny minor thing. Can you add a little bit of a delay to releasing shift when drawing a shape? I'm spoiled by the behaviour in Photoshop where there's a little bit of a delay (~75ms) between releasing shift, and it taking effect. This means that both shift and the mouse button can be released simultaneously, instead of having to consciously be aware of the order that you release the keys.

Good idea, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by rio517 »

thebouv wrote: post #12

I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so an example of when this is used would be great. Some feedback: I use Balsamiq and have for years. The whole reason I use a mockup tool in the first place is so I don't have to draw everything by hand or m…

I have a real need for such a tool - I work at a non-profit (MAYDAY PAC) and we pull expertise from distributed technical volunteers.

While it's a good start, I agree it's far from "We fixed mockups" To your point: The inability to use pre-drawn UI items here is a deal breaker.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by keithy »

thebouv wrote: post #12

I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so an example of when this is used would be great. Some feedback: I use Balsamiq and have for years. The whole reason I use a mockup tool in the first place is so I don't have to draw everything by hand or m…

As a college CS student, It's actually super useful for college students working on a project. The only good choice right now is Google DOCS for collaboration, having a realtime collab mockup creation tool would be very helpful for multiple college students working on a project.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by TheLoneWolfling »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #50
moron4hire wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would something like this work? ontouchstart: scrollMultiplier = 10; ontouchend: if(evt.touches.length === 1) scrollMultiplier = 1;

I would have thought it would be a touch event, but it's actually a normal scroll event. The only difference I can see is that it has the ctrl bit flipped. Here's the stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15416851/catching-mac-tra...

Probably for interoperability for applications that use "standard" ctrl-scroll for zoom.

It's a relatively common shortcut.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by csel »

Although there are many different tools out there, sometimes I just want to fire something up and start working on it. Speed, as in how quickly you can start working on something without having to tinker around with different tools and components is a huge plus. Use case scenario = design meetings, brainstorming sessions, client meetings etc. Plus the right click palette and the UI is very useful.

Assigning different colors for users working on the same canvas will be helpful to track who is working on what.

Considering this is an initial release, it is pretty amazing.

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