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> ...suddenly it seemed like everything was on GitHub. My UI designer peers _hated_ this and many still do. What about it do they hate? I ask as a non-designe
by chao- 9y ago
> ...suddenly it seemed like everything was on GitHub. My UI designer peers _hated_ this and many still do.
What about it do they hate?
I ask as a non-designer, to whom their perspective may be foreign.
- untog 9y agoGithub is a code management tool, so it isn’t too surprising that designers aren’t fond of it. Imagine code diffs, but for visual designs instead. Showing you which palette colors have changed, which margins have been tweaked etc. - Github doesn’t do any of that.
- TylerE 9y agoHow could it? Do you expect them to run some sort of headless Photoshop VM?
- untog 9y agoI don’t know, that wasn’t the question. In any case, is it that insane to imagine a visual diff tool? Illustrator files are basically just SVG, it’s all very parseable.
- adrianN 9y agoWrite one and become rich. There are tons of graphical tools that lack a proper diff. Just lock at all the CASE tools.
- jcelerier 9y agowell, it's able to display 3d files and images, so why not add some viewers for diffs ? https://github.com/makezonefablab/MakersBook01_MusicBox/commit/498ddea73e4c333bae6ee76ecfdf64c8676f62ae https://github.com/makezonefablab/MakersBook01_MusicBox/comm...
- TylerE 9y agoThere's a huge difference between displaying a simple, well documented open format and handling proprietary binary formats.
- jcelerier 9y agoBut there are plenty of libre software which are able to open a very large set of PSDs. Even if not everything was working perfectly, it would still be a good starting point. https://gist.github.com/ocornut/52a4b9c679ed670851e7 https://gist.github.com/ocornut/52a4b9c679ed670851e7
- jononor 9y agoGithub diffs PNG and SVG images I believe. In general one should not use PSD in an open source project, because it requires costly proprietary software. Also does not run on Linux
- themodelplumber 9y agoThey would show up wanting to find a download, and GutHub's UI was not set up like a typical private software website with a big "Download" button or menu item. It was off to the side, and I believe it said "Clone or Download", and these people are thinking, "is this some insider speak--am I at the right site?" And if you were just downloading, pretty soon you got told that you were ripping yourself off because downloading was so '80s, just clone the repo... Anyway you get the idea. All of a sudden tons of helpful UI resources were intermeshed with this GitHub ecosphere instead of living elsewhere, like on a lovingly-designed personal website with a pleasant UI that had not been mingled with versioning software.