Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
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Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
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Re: Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
#2Does anyone have experience with Macaw? Are you using it regularly?
I tried the demo a couple times, but didn't fall in love. It seems like a very compelling piece of software, so I'd like to hear if people using it.
Re: Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
#3Does anyone have experience with Macaw? Are you using it regularly? I tried the demo a couple times, but didn't fall in love. It seems like a very compelling piece of software, so I'd like to hear if people using it.
Yes, unfortunately I have some mild experience with the original release.
"The previous version of Macaw – soon to be rebranded as Macaw Indigo – excelled at prototyping and mockups. Said another way, Indigo is best for earlier stage, conceptual work and Scarlet is best for getting to production."
So the version I foolishly funded via Kickstarter (come on, it looked gorgeous) and discarded immediately is getting rebranded and the new version is being sold as the version I thought "indigo" was supposed to be.
They should have just released "Macaw 2.0" and fixed the whole shebang, and possibly given early adopters a major discount. All this does is 1) create confusion and 2) skepticism of the company. It didn't have to be this way, IMO.
Re: Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
#4Ah yes, the design environment for the web where all your users have new gaming PCs... (the i5 with a mid-class GPU below my desk can't display that page smoothly)
Re: Macaw Scarlet – Live Design Environment
#5Ah yes, the design environment for the web where all your users have new gaming PCs... (the i5 with a mid-class GPU below my desk can't display that page smoothly)
indeed
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#6Is it just me or is modern web design degrading into flash-era sludge where you have to sit and watch 20 seconds of lines dancing around before you can get any information? As a nerd who can appreciate the technical aspects I'm even finding it extremely overdone and obnoxious. There are cases, such as telling an interesting/interactive story, where it makes complete sense. However for an informational/product web site, I'm generally not there to be W0W3d by your 31337 w3b skillz.
Am I just old fashioned?
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#7Does anyone have experience with Macaw? Are you using it regularly? I tried the demo a couple times, but didn't fall in love. It seems like a very compelling piece of software, so I'd like to hear if people using it.
Yes, unfortunately I have some mild experience with the original release. "The previous version of Macaw – soon to be rebranded as Macaw Indigo – excelled at prototyping and mockups. Said another way, Indigo is best for earlier stage, conceptual work and Scarlet is best for getting to production." So the version I foolishly funded via Kickstarter (come on, it looked gorgeous) and discarded immediately is getting rebr…
Before there were any comments I thought about typing roughly the same sentiment. I only spent a few hours in Macaw before realizing it wouldn't actually help me get work done and figured I'd take another look when they got around to implementing more than the basics. Based on my experience I also took this announcement as essentially spinning off the useful parts (which regular Macaw users have probably been looking forward to) into a separate product. They have a trial which I recommend, since you can get a feel for the product pretty quickly now that it's actually available. As for what comes next, I'll evaluate it when it's an actual piece of software.
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#8Is it just me or is modern web design degrading into flash-era sludge where you have to sit and watch 20 seconds of lines dancing around before you can get any information? As a nerd who can appreciate the technical aspects I'm even finding it extremely overdone and obnoxious. There are cases, such as telling an interesting/interactive story, where it makes complete sense. However for an informational/product web sit…
The 3d stuff makes me nauseous.
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#9Does anyone have experience with Macaw? Are you using it regularly? I tried the demo a couple times, but didn't fall in love. It seems like a very compelling piece of software, so I'd like to hear if people using it.
I bought it, spent like a day in it, and then uninstalled it and returned to sublime text.
It's just one of those tools who has a single purpose and as soon as you try to do something outside of it, you need to use something else. I mean HTML/CSS isn't exactly the most hard thing to rite in the world.
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#10The idea is great, the concept of creating professional grade tools for something is admirable, but in this particular case, whats wrong with Brackets/Sublime/DW/Notepad and a web browser? I find trying to use these new tools results in me spending most of my time either fighting with them or writing custom code outside of them to get what I want done anyway. The website itself looks cool but has an awful frame rate on my i7 Laptop with 16GB of RAM and a Quadro 1GB, which isnt exactly slow.