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Perhaps I'm not your target audience, but I have a hard time understanding what it is that you do. Here are some observations from a first-time visitor. UI Lib

Perhaps I'm not your target audience, but I have a hard time understanding what it is that you do. Here are some observations from a first-time visitor. UI Library Creator: I think the left-right carrousel shows different page layouts, showcasing the current style? But they're all very similar to each other. And you're already showing the styles as a thumbnail at the bottom? What's the difference? A static grid with four very different pages would probably work better for me. If I press Shuffle styles, does it only shuffle the current tab, or all styles? I think it might do all, which is very confusing. Sometimes it looked like it barely changed anything, and sometimes it felt like everything got replaced. It didn't make me feel comfortable experimenting. shuffle.dev: Then I was curious about Shuffle generally. It says 60+ UI libraries. I thought you were able to produce styles for 60+ web UI frameworks, but it seems these are 60+ pre-made style packages? Since I just came from a UI library creator, that felt a bit odd, I mean surely I could randomly generate more than 60 variants? The Components view has some really intrusive "ad" as the second item. At first I thouht it was a form component. It really shouldn't be the same size as the real content items. Then I started wondering what you mean by "component", and realized that these are pre-made layouts. Sure, the implementation in React is probably as a component, but I find that word confusing. Still not sure if you're selling React components, CSS sheets, plain HTML or all of the above. The overall impression is "information overload" everywhere on your site. I'm on a 1920x1080 laptop screen with i3 as WM, and if I press "Purchase," the popup is so long, I have to scroll (a bit) to get to the bottom of it. Even though there isn't really much information, it's presented in a very cluttered way. > We recommend starting by selecting Assets and Copywriting for your target audience. So then, why are these two tabs last in your tab row? Sorry. Didn't mean to make it so negative, but these were my two cents.

kemyd 3y ago
Hey, Thank you for your feedback. 1. The "Shuffle Styles" changes everything except tabs with a padlock icon. You can lock settings you like and then keep shuffling. 2. Shuffle is our main product (check https://shuffle.dev/new https://shuffle.dev/new). Until now, we have only had UI libraries we created ourselves. You can adjust them to your needs in the editor, but the UI Library Creator is a tool to create libraries we don't have. 3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly. 4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc. For example, you can view components of Saturn Library: https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn 5. Assets and Copy are last because they are not this tool's "killer feature"- Styles are. :) However, when creating a UI library, it is best to lock them at the beginning so you can focus on styles, not texts and images. Appreciate engagement with a longer comment! Thanks
- tommiegannert 3y ago
  > 3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly. Yepp. https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/about-us https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/about-us The second item is some static "house ad" for Alternatives. On this page, it stands out well, and I can tell it's not actually part of the search results. The annoying animation of course means it's distracting in an otherwise quiet page, but whatever. The problem is I started clicking around on https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/dashboard-forms https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/dashboard-forms, where all the real search results are also dark themed, and there it's just confusing and irrelevant. Had it been just a banner, it would have been more visually obvious that you're just trying to distract me, and that it's not part of the search result. > 4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc. If I look at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/pricing https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/pricing, you're telling me this is a component. To me, the word component signifies an atom, something simple with a single purpose. This makes me think the "component" you talk about is one of the columns, but I think you mean it's the entire layout, including header. I.e. some assembly of components (perhaps super-component), in my taxonomy. That doesn't fit the bill of "atomic" and my brain just spins around trying to make sense of it all. OTOH, looking at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/footer https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/footer, it seems that you're showing more than just a footer? I.e. what you are showing me is not the component, but the component in an example context. It's taken me five views of your search results to reverse engineer what it is I'm looking at, and understanding what your product is. Perhaps make the irrelevant parts shaded? Or add a toggleable frame around the actual component?
  - kemyd 3y ago
    It's an "ad" for our tool that helps build websites in many styles at once (60+ libraries we have in Shuffle). I'll ask our designer to make it less irritating. ;) We have used the term "components" for a long time. Some call them "sections" or "blocks". Still, I think "component" is a valid name, and many websites with components/sections/blocks use it.

kemyd 3y ago

Hey, Thank you for your feedback. 1. The "Shuffle Styles" changes everything except tabs with a padlock icon. You can lock settings you like and then keep shuffling. 2. Shuffle is our main product (check https://shuffle.dev/new https://shuffle.dev/new). Until now, we have only had UI libraries we created ourselves. You can adjust them to your needs in the editor, but the UI Library Creator is a tool to create libraries we don't have. 3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly. 4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc. For example, you can view components of Saturn Library: https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn 5. Assets and Copy are last because they are not this tool's "killer feature"- Styles are. :) However, when creating a UI library, it is best to lock them at the beginning so you can focus on styles, not texts and images. Appreciate engagement with a longer comment! Thanks

tommiegannert 3y ago
> 3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly. Yepp. https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/about-us https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/about-us The second item is some static "house ad" for Alternatives. On this page, it stands out well, and I can tell it's not actually part of the search results. The annoying animation of course means it's distracting in an otherwise quiet page, but whatever. The problem is I started clicking around on https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/dashboard-forms https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/dashboard-forms, where all the real search results are also dark themed, and there it's just confusing and irrelevant. Had it been just a banner, it would have been more visually obvious that you're just trying to distract me, and that it's not part of the search result. > 4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc. If I look at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/pricing https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/pricing, you're telling me this is a component. To me, the word component signifies an atom, something simple with a single purpose. This makes me think the "component" you talk about is one of the columns, but I think you mean it's the entire layout, including header. I.e. some assembly of components (perhaps super-component), in my taxonomy. That doesn't fit the bill of "atomic" and my brain just spins around trying to make sense of it all. OTOH, looking at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/footer https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/footer, it seems that you're showing more than just a footer? I.e. what you are showing me is not the component, but the component in an example context. It's taken me five views of your search results to reverse engineer what it is I'm looking at, and understanding what your product is. Perhaps make the irrelevant parts shaded? Or add a toggleable frame around the actual component?
- kemyd 3y ago
  It's an "ad" for our tool that helps build websites in many styles at once (60+ libraries we have in Shuffle). I'll ask our designer to make it less irritating. ;) We have used the term "components" for a long time. Some call them "sections" or "blocks". Still, I think "component" is a valid name, and many websites with components/sections/blocks use it.