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I hate when i have to go 4 links deep to get an explanation of what it even is.
Penpot is the first open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Designers can create stunning designs, interactive prototypes, design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow easy and fast. And all of this with no handoff drama.
It doesn't explicitly say so but it's apparently for people who make web sites. Who would make anything else anyway (I suppose).
It's vector art. You can design all sorts of things. App layouts, website design, logo design, basically anything that is visual and will need to scale up and down without loss of detail.
That kind of information would potentially be useful on their site's front page.
Like most FOSS projects... they're awful at promoting what they actually do on their website front page, instead focusing on FOSS buzzwords. It's unfortunately a thing.
Thank you. I was also confused
I'm still confused
Should’ve explained it to me man. I don’t want to go 4 links deep.
Well, I didn't like having to wait for their Discourse forum page to load myself. I added their Fediverse account link as well to ease discomfort.
Design and code beautiful products. Together. Penpot is the web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.
That’s a lot of words for so little information.
WYSIWYG collaboration platform, I guess?
Looks like "open source Figma." If so, great!
It's open source Figma
Which is a bit ironic for people that make UX/UI software
I wouldn't expect a blog post to explain what it is, as they're generally designed for people aware of the project. I doubt they're the ones that posted it here. Instead of clicking links, I just went to the main site and very quickly understood what it was.
Some sort of marketing bullshit generator I assume by the text of the post?
This blog post is pretty buzzword-heavy, but Penpot is a legitimately great tool. It's used for UI design and layouts. I've seen a couple of open source projects use a self-hosted Penpot instance for working on and discussing new designs.
Figma would be the most popular, proprietary example of this type of tool. I'm not aware of any open source competitors besides Penpot.
edit: It's like Google docs for web page layouts or app layouts. The animation on their homepage is probably the best way of showing what it does.
Is... is this the comeback of WYSIWYGs?
Ui design tools are not used to build actual apps and anyone trying toake them do that is a fool. It's for designing apps.
Did you read the new features? CSS and HTML component testing, complete with web scalability (I.e media-query). Sounds very WYSIWYG to me.
But yeah, I know it's an open source Figma, because Figma can ligma balls.
Heh, ligma. Nice.
There's no logic in any of that. CSS and HTML component testing is just automating the designer/dev hand off. You can't make a functional app with it. And it's not appropiate as a content editor so doesn't even rise to the WYSIWYG abilities of something like Wordpress Gutenberg full-site editing or Squarespace.
In my day, son, a WYSIWYG spat out HTML and CSS. It was up to you to integrate it.
Ah yes I forgot. That was very slightly before my time in the industry. Remember playing around with komposer in college.
That said Penpot can't even create links or do any sort of routing. It's not spitting out html and css. It's spitting out specs that devs can use as reference when coding. PowerPoint is a more robust wysiwyg than penpot by a basic functionality measure.
love it! Amazing work!
Great, now let us know what’s on the roadmap for Taiga
What does it has to do with Taiga?
Same company makes it, last I heard they announced big plans for Taiga, and then it’s been crickets.
Maybe this has changed, but I haven’t seen anything recently.
Does it have component variants yet?
Quite cool!
Looks cool! :)