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While cool I am not sure if this is genuinely useful. I can now take my design and convert it to HTML- now what? I still have to integrate my api, handle respo
by albertgoeswoof 9y ago
While cool I am not sure if this is genuinely useful. I can now take my design and convert it to HTML- now what?
I still have to integrate my api, handle responsiveness, add JavaScript and other animations/actions etc. So I’ll probably end up rewriting most of it anyway.
What I actually get out of this is not much better than emebedding the original image in an img tag, in fact it might be worse, because it creates technical debt that I now have to maintain.
- felipeccastro 9y agoI agree, and honestly, I think trying to solve this via deep learning is not the optimal approach. Too many details to handle besides a static layout, which are the hardest part. I believe it would be a lot more effective if designers used tools that generated clean code directly, instead of Photoshop. If it's a SPA, then something with the actual, integrated React/Vue components for consistency and reuse. While I'm not familiar with any such tool that's actually good enough for professional use (most WYSIWYG designers for the web I tried were terrible), I wonder why we haven't seen much success in this area yet, as we have with desktop app design since VB6.
- juliushuijnk 9y agoI think the potential is in converting images (sketches) into ux source files that you can edit immediately and then convert those to HTML, PDF, DOCS, etc. I can see that the HTML would more likely used for a clickable prototype than the real thing, but it could still be a neat way to save some time. I'm working on a (text-command) ux tool and have been thinking about such a machine learned import feature, but lack those skills and time at the moment to build it.