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Show HN: Diez – open-source framework and compiler for design languages

65 points by zackbrown 7y ago

zackbrown 7y ago
Diez is created & maintained by a YC company, Haiku (W18) The Haiku team's mission is to "revolutionize the way teams create software, by unifying design & code." In talking with our users, we recognized a huge unmet need in delivering a consistent visual identity across codebases — while embracing native platforms. To that end, we spent the last year creating and iterating on Diez: a developer toolkit for expressing design languages in TypeScript, and a cross-platform native compiler targeting native iOS, Android, and Web: with a focus on native-developer ergonomics and scalability. Now finally today: Diez is open source on GitHub. You can get started at https://diez.org https://diez.org Any questions? Feedback? Please share!
- giovannibonetti 7y ago
  Awesome product! Do you have any testimonials you can share?
  - zackbrown 7y ago
    Here's one from an engineer at McKinsey: https://twitter.com/breakingpixels/status/1196489022685745153 https://twitter.com/breakingpixels/status/119648902268574515... Working to gather more!
- louisch 7y ago
  The figma integration currently appears to require logging into beta.diez.org, but I cannot find any sign up option anywhere. Is this feature not available yet?
  - zackbrown 7y ago
    Everything lives publicly on diez.org now. There are a few places we need to update beta.diez.org => diez.org in our codebase & messaging. The beta site existed for our private beta. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. For now, until we update the urls: you can just manually remove 'beta.';
    - zackbrown 7y ago
      Beta URLs fixed: https://github.com/diez/diez/pull/7/files https://github.com/diez/diez/pull/7/files
Gys 7y ago
> A design language also known as design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings. Diez is definitly an enterprise product. One day I hope I need this ;-)
- zackbrown 7y ago
  Hey, I hope so too! Hit us up when you're there :)
couchand 7y ago
FYI when I navigate to Learn > Guides, the first letter of each row is cut off. https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq
- roperzh 7y ago
  Thank you very much for pointing this! we'll fix it soon.
desireco42 7y ago
This looks very cool. I really appreciate work that went into this. Since I work on a design system component library, I will organize a presentation of Diez for developers and designers to sit through together. I can see how this can be useful, we are already coding some of the rules, but this would integrate us on a whole new level. It does require a commitment from everyone that might be hard to get in a big corporation.
- zackbrown 7y ago
  Thanks so much! Totally understood about the challenges of getting all the right folks to buy in on a large team. I'm here to help. Would you like me to join your presentation by video call for a demo and Q&A? Also happy to swing by in person in the Bay Area. Just let me know: zack@diez.org
  - desireco42 7y ago
    First, thank you for offering. We are in Chicago and I already did a presentation for wider team and it was really well received. I think it is perfect case for us and what we are doing. Since you offered, I will hit you up from my corporate email and we can continue chatting there.
iggyigner 7y ago
This team is incredibly strong. I had the chance of hanging with them for an afternoon at their office and was blown away by their humility and knowledge.

65 points by zackbrown 7y ago

Diez is created & maintained by a YC company, Haiku (W18) The Haiku team's mission is to "revolutionize the way teams create software, by unifying design & code." In talking with our users, we recognized a huge unmet need in delivering a consistent visual identity across codebases — while embracing native platforms. To that end, we spent the last year creating and iterating on Diez: a developer toolkit for expressing design languages in TypeScript, and a cross-platform native compiler targeting native iOS, Android, and Web: with a focus on native-developer ergonomics and scalability. Now finally today: Diez is open source on GitHub. You can get started at https://diez.org https://diez.org Any questions? Feedback? Please share!

giovannibonetti 7y ago
Awesome product! Do you have any testimonials you can share?
- zackbrown 7y ago
  Here's one from an engineer at McKinsey: https://twitter.com/breakingpixels/status/1196489022685745153 https://twitter.com/breakingpixels/status/119648902268574515... Working to gather more!
louisch 7y ago
The figma integration currently appears to require logging into beta.diez.org, but I cannot find any sign up option anywhere. Is this feature not available yet?
- zackbrown 7y ago
  Everything lives publicly on diez.org now. There are a few places we need to update beta.diez.org => diez.org in our codebase & messaging. The beta site existed for our private beta. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. For now, until we update the urls: you can just manually remove 'beta.';
  - zackbrown 7y ago
    Beta URLs fixed: https://github.com/diez/diez/pull/7/files https://github.com/diez/diez/pull/7/files

Gys 7y ago

> A design language also known as design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products or architectural settings. Diez is definitly an enterprise product. One day I hope I need this ;-)

zackbrown 7y ago
Hey, I hope so too! Hit us up when you're there :)

couchand 7y ago

FYI when I navigate to Learn > Guides, the first letter of each row is cut off. https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq https://imgur.com/a/vMR6erq

roperzh 7y ago
Thank you very much for pointing this! we'll fix it soon.

desireco42 7y ago

This looks very cool. I really appreciate work that went into this. Since I work on a design system component library, I will organize a presentation of Diez for developers and designers to sit through together. I can see how this can be useful, we are already coding some of the rules, but this would integrate us on a whole new level. It does require a commitment from everyone that might be hard to get in a big corporation.

zackbrown 7y ago
Thanks so much! Totally understood about the challenges of getting all the right folks to buy in on a large team. I'm here to help. Would you like me to join your presentation by video call for a demo and Q&A? Also happy to swing by in person in the Bay Area. Just let me know: zack@diez.org
- desireco42 7y ago
  First, thank you for offering. We are in Chicago and I already did a presentation for wider team and it was really well received. I think it is perfect case for us and what we are doing. Since you offered, I will hit you up from my corporate email and we can continue chatting there.

iggyigner 7y ago

This team is incredibly strong. I had the chance of hanging with them for an afternoon at their office and was blown away by their humility and knowledge.