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Design Tools for Everything
- koolba 8y agoI read the title as an imperative statement and was disappointed that it’s just yet another GitHub “Awesome list of...”. Was really hoping for an article about building custom tooling as I feel like a lot of my day is spent doing exactly that (ie mini tools to automate recurring semi manual tasks).
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- imglorp 8y agoI read it a second way, also wrong: tools to help me design things. Do all web designers think they're the center of everything? :-) ... I KID!
- Waterluvian 8y agoThis is a great resource to have. I'm a little disappointed that it's more a tools for Designers resource. Mostly graphics and UI and such. I was hoping to find some design tools for HFSMs that aren't just flow chart drawing tools.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoThese curations get overwhelming pretty fast and lack social proof. Anyone can pull request anything. For example, the first screenshot tool I clicked didn't even have a screenshot or copy on the landing page. Just a download button + email collection form. https://getkap.co/ https://getkap.co/ -- Not something I would blindly run on my machine, but I'd consider it if it was HN's favorite tool. Another take on these "Awesome *" lists would be to link to real world forum topics (Reddit, HN, etc) where people are discussing, say, their favorite screen-recording tool. That way you at least get a priority queue of software to consider. And you can differentiate between a tool with 100 upvotes vs. one that's only ever shilled by its shady creator.
- multipass 8y agoAll these "awesome list of ..." maybe means that there is a need for a site like Yahoo in the 90's which tried to catalogize internet in a hierarchical list-of-lists manner.
- edpichler 8y agoI agree. It seems no algorithm could kill "curators" yet.
- jxub 8y agoWell, Github could select an official list per technology, move it to eg. the github.com/explore part and reward the curator with money or software licenses/subscriptions.
- hopler 8y agoWhat if I'd like something that the arbitrary community manager of GitHub doesn't? Why would a software project management site be the arbiter of good software?
- serf 8y agoI agree that it's needed. The problem with those kind of sites is that the site owners try to game the ranking system.
- mihaifm 8y agoThese lists get far more Github stars than actual software...same problem here.
- Asooka 8y agoWell, the list of tools is at least as useful as the most useful tool on the list, and probably reflects the overall usefulness of its category. Which means that if we go enough levels farther, the master list of lists [of lists...] would reflect the overall usefulness of all software on GitHub. Also maybe GitHub needs a "list of stuff" category, so these lists of things don't muddle search results and conversely can be searched for easily. Curated lists of links are generally quite useful and putting it all in a public vcs with a pull request infrastructure makes it easy to contribute.
- akadrew2 8y agoIt's quite similar to http://evernote.design/ http://evernote.design/
- radley 8y agoGood resource, but it's not that similar. The Evernote site is more about design content than tools. For example: version control, typeface, and 3D are all thrown together as "Design Tools" http://evernote.design/categories/design-tools/ http://evernote.design/categories/design-tools/
- LisaDziuba 7y agoThe Evernote site is good as well!
- JunaidBhai 8y agoThis is literally a gold mine. Despite being a founder of a Design company, coming across such collection of compiled resources has always been a painful task. I have tried using https://startupstash.com https://startupstash.com and https://startupresources.io https://startupresources.io earlier which had good resources too. What's the best way to add more products to the list? Any idea if I could add the following products: Product 1: http://draftss.com http://draftss.com Product 2: http://draftss.com/getfeedback http://draftss.com/getfeedback
- achow 8y agohttps://github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools/blob/master/Contribution_Guidelines.md https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools/blob/mast...
- whoisjuan 8y ago> Despite being a founder of a Design company, coming across such collection of compiled resources has always been a painful task. Really? You probably haven't looked that hard, because there are probably hundreds of these type of lists. There seems to be one every month in Product Hunt. BTW, it's probably not your intention, but your last line with links to your product looks like a super spammy hijacking attempt.
- LisaDziuba 7y ago> What's the best way to add more products to the list? You just need to send Pull Request to the GitHub repo. Here you will find the guide: https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools/blob/master/Contribution_Guidelines.md https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools/blob/mast...
- skilled 8y agoSeen this everywhere the last couple of days, a "spam" campaign going on?
- wingerlang 8y agoThe people behind "Flawless App" tend to do a loooooot of content, linking back to their app. On one hand, some content is actually pretty nice. On the other, it can come across spammy.
- orarbel1 8y agoMissing our tool for high-fidelity prototypes in Sketch: https://www.animaapp.com https://www.animaapp.com
- gtirloni 8y agoYou can submit a pull request from the GitHub website directly. Just click edit.
- Crinus 8y agoThese lists are a nice idea, but i do not like the execution - they are little more than a dump of someone's bookmarks. Personally i'd like to see a bit more information about each entry, including screenshots and a short explanation about the program. Something like Softpedia would be great (although simpler), although preferably without garbage reviews like this: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-Compilers/DMD.shtml https://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-C... (for a bonus WTF check the screenshot). Alternatively (and probably easier to do) something like tinyapps.org but with a bit more information per entry.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThese lists are essentially like tinyapps.com. I don't think adding more details is a good idea - that would essentially be a duplication of content from each link on the list. The biggest value the of form of these lists (and tinyapps.com) is that I can skim them quickly. If you built an encyclopedia, somebody soon would want to have a simple list of all entries. To add to that: if these lists were to be more detailed, they probably wouldn't exist at all, as expanding and maintaining them would be too much work.
- stiff 8y agoI disagree, it's trivial these days to get a list of anything (books, movies, software etc.) simply from google, so if you are going to manually compose a list it better be A) really strictly selected based on true personal experience B) contain any kind of explanation why the item made the list. It's not supposed to turn into an encylopedia, but e.g. I find annotated bibliographies with 2-3 sentences of comments by someone knowledgeable in the field much more valuable than just a list of books.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThe lists are curated. Maybe superficially, but that gets 80% of the job done and is extremely good at filtering out crap. I'd say the level of effort is just right for making the lists broadly useful, as a tool to get the general lay of the space. If they were more strict, they'd lose tools that may be useful for visitors with slightly different preferences than the curators.
- madez 8y ago[Wrong thread]
- mabbo 8y agoI'm pretty sure you posted this on the wrong thread, but I'm enjoying imagining you didn't. (And it's a great point! Go repost it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19581571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19581571)
- madez 8y agoYup, thanks. HN confused me somewhat because the thread about Ulrich was shown when I wasn't logged in, but wasn't shown when I was logged in.
- rooam-dev 8y agoWhere is Zulip? :)
- LisaDziuba 7y agoyou can add it :)
- starky 8y agoDesign Tools for "Everything", yet is missing all the most common design tools for device design. Where are SolidWorks, Creo, Altium, etc.?
- rosegarden0 8y agoIm fascinated by the popularity of curated lists. There are so many and most of them get a ton of likes/upvotes/etc. any research on why this is the case?
- alexpetralia 8y agoI am not sure about research (though of course research-based evidence is always good), but I think this stems from people's innate desire for simplicity/order. Listicles hack our primitive brain.
- rosegarden0 8y agoTrue, but the amount of available (and often identical) lists is incredible. Are people really using these lists long-term or are they enthusiastically bookmarked and then forgotten for ever? Genuinely interested
- emilfihlman 8y agoDoes not feature electronics at all.
- ducktective 8y agoor mechanical construction tools
- stronglikedan 8y agoNo FontForge under Font Tools? For shame... ;-)
- LisaDziuba 7y agofeel free to send a Pull Request ;-)
- jhund 8y agoThanks for this list. I found Keyshape for authoring web animations.