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Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead? Agree strongly that designers are capable of using ver

by jasim 11y ago

Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead? Agree strongly that designers are capable of using version control, navigate the command line, and even write scripts that make their life easier (the Sketch plugin ecosystem is a good example). However, it was my observation that to do the thing that they care most about, which is building great interfaces, they do not need to know any of these things, and they do it only for the benefit of the developers. Which is a good reason why tools like these exist. I'm curious to hear your thoughts around this. Thanks. (I'm not at all affiliated with Figma and in fact I'm building a tool in the same space)

golergka 11y ago
> Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead? No, this would be a stupid thing to do. I suggested moving them to the WYSIWYG tool that is directly coupled with IDE instead.
- endergen 11y ago
  I like your point about having designers a the particular platforms UI tool/system. It's sad though that they can't learn a platform agnostic tool so that skills are more shared and portable across platforms. So I like this kind of solution for tackling that. Also, making it easy for designers to mockup interactions in more than just series static mockups is much better for articulating their designs. This is why so many design prototyping tools are coming out of Facebook, Apple, etc these days. Having it online, collaborative, and platform agnostic seems like a strong basis for a successful production provided they can provide tooling to make it easy to use on popular platforms. I think an embeddable UI runtime you can drop into projects would be the ideal technical approach.
- IshKebab 11y ago
  To be fair those tools only existed very recently, at least on Android. And it's only very recently become good enough for anyone sane to use.

by jasim 11y ago

golergka 11y ago

> Were you actually successful in getting the designers to ditch the WYSIWYG tools and write code instead? No, this would be a stupid thing to do. I suggested moving them to the WYSIWYG tool that is directly coupled with IDE instead.

endergen 11y ago
I like your point about having designers a the particular platforms UI tool/system. It's sad though that they can't learn a platform agnostic tool so that skills are more shared and portable across platforms. So I like this kind of solution for tackling that. Also, making it easy for designers to mockup interactions in more than just series static mockups is much better for articulating their designs. This is why so many design prototyping tools are coming out of Facebook, Apple, etc these days. Having it online, collaborative, and platform agnostic seems like a strong basis for a successful production provided they can provide tooling to make it easy to use on popular platforms. I think an embeddable UI runtime you can drop into projects would be the ideal technical approach.
IshKebab 11y ago
To be fair those tools only existed very recently, at least on Android. And it's only very recently become good enough for anyone sane to use.