AndreasMoeller

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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Nordcraft is for building the whole frontend. Instead of trying to fix the handoff, designers and developers work in the same tool.
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Absolutely agree. That is why we are working on making the Nordcraft editor open source and we write blog posts like this to hope to get more people to see that we need better tools. If you are just one tool are not going to have meainingfu
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
No quite the opposite. I have been around for a long time :) It used to be completely normal for companies to have developers who worked in php or ruby on rails and have designers take care of the css. You are absolutely right that in the e
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Yes. Nordcraft is based on HTML and CSS. You can either use the style panel or switch to css view if you prefer.
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Thank you for the feedback. You can try Nordcraft without signing up by going to one of our examples: https://nordcraft.com/built-with-nordcraft
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Figma is a great tool. We use it all the time for all sorts of things, just not web design.
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Yes I left out a lot to keep it short and to the point. There has been many attempts at solving the handoff and none of them has been effective. The solution is to get rid of the design handoff all together. Instead of designing user interf
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
We are definitely not trying to be the next Figma. Figma does not solve this by any measure, quite the opposite. Figma could have been a web design tool, it is not. It is a vector drawing app. Nordcraft is a completely different type of too
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Not according to their rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
It literally says in the showHN rules that blog posts are off topic. I don't think they can be more clear than that.
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
https://nordcraft.com
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Yes Flash gave everyone a taste of what the workflow could be.
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Yeah! Image maps FTW! 1995 was a crazy year for the web
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Figma dev mode is definitely better than a PSD file, but it is still a terrible hand off process. I wasn't arguing that the handoff was ever good. I was saying when the person designing the UI also wrote the CSS you didn't need a
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
You might have seen different titles where you worked, but generally the term web designers was broadly used to refer to people using HTML & CSS. The term frontend developer didn't really exists back then because allmost all the lo
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
I am not saying that it was the same at every company and your personal experience may be different. This was absolutely the norm at a lot of companies. It was very normal for the developers to work in either PHP or Ruby on Rails and the de
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No Figma, I won't fit in your little box(blog.nordcraft.com)
34 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|75 comments
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A designer might be your best startup hire(youtube.com)
1 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|0 comments
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Build for joy, not just for work(svenning.io)
3 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|1 comments
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Nordcraft AI Assistant [video](youtube.com)
1 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|0 comments
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Approximating Reality with CSS Linear()(blog.nordcraft.com)
2 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|0 comments
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
Exactly
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
It is definitely going to be a challenge for some designers I am not going to lie. But at least in the case of Nordcraft you can start small. Have the designer only focus on the visual styling while learning the platform. Then as they get m
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
It is crazy to me that the game industry solved this 30+ years ago and we are just getting started on the web.
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Stop trying to fix the handoff process(blog.nordcraft.com)
7 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|6 comments
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
It is a little bit of both but mostly the latter
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What is a Web Development Engine? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|1 comments
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
There seems to be a lot of people who are not quite clear on what democracy means.
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Stop Saying Democratize When You Mean Dumb Down(blog.nordcraft.com)
2 points by AndreasMoeller 1y ago|1 comments
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by AndreasMoeller 1y ago
The best feature is that if you are feeling stressed you can stop time just by switching to a different browser tab

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