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This is pretty cool! As a designer I can see the potential but the demo feels a bit simplistic — it might make a more compelling demo if you connected Noya to a

This is pretty cool! As a designer I can see the potential but the demo feels a bit simplistic — it might make a more compelling demo if you connected Noya to a higher fidelity design system than basic bootstrap. Who is your target user? Right now it feels like this could be a superpower for non-designers but a bit limiting for designers. I remember a medium article (I think?) about the Airbnb team building something similar to transform whiteboard sketches. Were you a part of that work? Thanks for sharing, hope you don’t mind the feedback — the tech is impressive!

dabbott 4y ago
This is super useful feedback! I definitely want to support more design systems, including higher fidelity ones. I started with Chakra due to its popularity and simplicity, but agree that visually it's not the most compelling demo. I think the people who will get the most value from what Noya can do today are founders, PMs, researchers, and engineers - people who want to show a mockup to their team or customers, but who don't want to spend hours in Figma. Part of the goal, which I think could be valuable to designers too, is to help smaller companies leverage design systems without needing a person/team to support them. E.g. Airbnb had a design system team AND a design tools team, and I think that's a big part of what made it work. At smaller companies, trying to use a design system without the proper support can often make things worse. We think Noya might fill that gap. With Noya, a smaller company could make mockups and prototypes with their existing React component library, without having to maintain a separate Figma library. My cofounder David worked on the Airbnb sketching interfaces project: https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/ https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/. But mostly the output of that plugged into the higher fidelity (internal) design tools that David and I were building.

dabbott 4y ago

This is super useful feedback! I definitely want to support more design systems, including higher fidelity ones. I started with Chakra due to its popularity and simplicity, but agree that visually it's not the most compelling demo. I think the people who will get the most value from what Noya can do today are founders, PMs, researchers, and engineers - people who want to show a mockup to their team or customers, but who don't want to spend hours in Figma. Part of the goal, which I think could be valuable to designers too, is to help smaller companies leverage design systems without needing a person/team to support them. E.g. Airbnb had a design system team AND a design tools team, and I think that's a big part of what made it work. At smaller companies, trying to use a design system without the proper support can often make things worse. We think Noya might fill that gap. With Noya, a smaller company could make mockups and prototypes with their existing React component library, without having to maintain a separate Figma library. My cofounder David worked on the Airbnb sketching interfaces project: https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/ https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/. But mostly the output of that plugged into the higher fidelity (internal) design tools that David and I were building.