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Free resources made by designers at Facebook
- Tinyyy 11y agoWhat's the economics behind many tech companies sharing their tools?
- DAddYE 11y agoMostly free beta tester and patches BUT also increase a LOT your chances to hire.
- Jake232 11y agoIt often attracts talented engineers; tech companies are always after talented engineers.
- ihsw 11y agoProspective employee's use public showcasing as a meter stick for who's who. GitHub projects notably exemplify this -- not only is it a painless/cheap indicator of an employee's skillset, it also works for companies too. On top of that, it fosters communication between teams in the industry and (in some cases) serves as a recruitment channel. Those that contribute in a meaningful manner to your open-source projects must meet certain standards and expectations, and finding such people is difficult. In this case they come to you.
- aikah 11y agoPR, influence, beta testing, 3rd party devs patching bugs for you for free ...
- onedev 11y agoIt moves the industry forward? Also having the empathy to recognize that if you've built your success on top of free tools then it bodes well to contribute back to that same community that enabled your success. Think of it like an Alumni network.
- tedks 11y agoThey get to spend less on training, making employees more commoditized.
- tedks 11y agoI'm curious as to why this is downvoting while the top-voted response has this exact same thing in it. Is HN just allergic to anything that isn't cheerleading the software industry?
- feverishaaron 11y agoI see this as a recruiting tool. Designers want to work for a company that "gets" designers' needs.
- qq66 11y agoThe large tech companies benefit from a thriving tech ecosystem: companies using these tools are much more likely to become partners or acquisition targets than they are to become direct zero-sum competitors.
- simula67 11y agoNot from perspective of design, but from open source software development. 1. Positive PR 2. External targeted contributions. For example, most people submitting patches to open source software are facing some issue as a user. If they are experiencing the issue others may also be experiencing similar problems. This is a much better way of driving development compared to doing it post expensive market research. 3. Marketing 4. Recruiting vehicle 5. Increasing the size of markets. For example Google is trying to bring more people online with Android to increase the size of search market. 6. Commoditizing complements http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html 7. Reducing the cost of training new employees 8. Increasing their influence in which direction to take the industry. For example setting standards for server hardware with Open Compute Project. 9. Free testers 10. Improving employee morale
- kingi 11y agoThose answers are just awesome and exactly reflect the way how modern software business works. Please - big IT corporations - breath, understand, embrace and internalize what's written here. It should be part of every company strategy!!
- luiscarloscb 11y agoOrigami looks really nice, can someone that has used it for some time share their experience with it?
- gfodor 11y agoThere's been a flood of these types of tools recently, Origami being one of the early ones. I found this handy comparison chart: http://www.cooper.com/prototyping-tools http://www.cooper.com/prototyping-tools
- sandGorgon 11y agoSo, if you are a designer or a product manager, you cannot use Linux. I wish that Facebook, with all its money, could have supported cross platform design frameworks.
- feverishaaron 11y agoThey are giving these assets out for free, and they most likely use Macs internally. If you want them for Linux, feel free to provide your own to the community.
- sandGorgon 11y agoI can't. I neither have the resources nor the ability. However, locking it to the Mac ecosystem eliminates possibilities for third world countries (like India and China) which are using Linux right from schools.
- ncallaway 11y agoI believe the appropriate idiom here is: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth".
- Menge 11y ago> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth. A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.
- err4nt 11y agoLooking at a real horse's teeth shows how worn down they are over age. Looking at a horses teeth is to check its age. The idiom could be modernized to: 'dont check the odometer of a gift car'
- bshimmin 11y ago"Diverse Device Hands" looks... handy. (Sorry, I'll get my coat.)
- Sexagesimal 11y agoThe next AOL
- sandebert 11y agoVery minor note: The page for the hands is named handskit. In Swedish that would translate to handpoo. (Or perhaps handcrap.) Got a small chuckle out of it, because poo. That said: Nice share, will probably come in handy. (rimshot)
- estefan 11y agoFacebook are nailing it at the moment. I love the look of Origami (http://facebook.github.io/origami/ http://facebook.github.io/origami/). I wonder how long until it can export to react(-native) components...
- Menge 11y agoThe license on the IOS GUI: http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html http://facebook.github.io/design/license.html You can't use any of this in an actual application. So, I make a mock up and show it to someone and then my finished work has to be different from the mock up to avoid copyright infringement? In that situation, I would say I have intentionally defrauded my customer(/employer) and they should refuse to pay (or fire me) and win. (More likely still, I use them anyway since a graphic artist has made the mock-up and I presume they created or correctly sourced the graphics.)
- delinka 11y agoSummary: I don't see an actual problem here. "...found in the public release of iOS 9." Facebook can't claim copyright on Apple's UI elements by simply recreating them in a Photoshop mockup. Upon further reading of the license, I see that it says you can't embed the Facebook Design Resources in an app. In other words, you can't redistribute their Photoshop files.
- Menge 11y agoNow I am even more confused. What is Apple's license on Apple's UI elements that facebook can make this derivative work? From reading the description it sounded like they were making original elements in the style of Apple's for apps with non-native features that need to blend in.
- delinka 11y agoI'm sure the license that allows me, a 3rd party app developer, to make 'derivative works' (native applications) that use Apple's UI elements, also permits this kind of use. However, I am currently disinclined to read the current developer license agreement to find out if this actually is the case.
- septerr 11y agoYou are getting psds of iphone's own user interface...so that you can then put the mock up of your application inside it for say client presentation or to see how your app's design looks on the iPhone or to see if your app's design meshes well with iphone's aesthetics.