As it’s often the case with major releases, they feel both like the end of a journey and the beginning of a new one. Short clip showing all Let me first cover why Penpot 2.0 is such an impactful release. Once again, we delivered on our promise to bring developers and designers closer together. Our bold movement to build CSS Grid Layout and enable designers to create responsive interfaces matching coding constructs was unexpected. The design tool space has changed forever. Component Lib...
  • jackalope@lemmy.ml
    8·
    1 year ago

    Ui design tools are not used to build actual apps and anyone trying toake them do that is a fool. It’s for designing apps.

      • jackalope@lemmy.ml
        11·
        1 year ago

        There’s no logic in any of that. CSS and HTML component testing is just automating the designer/dev hand off. You can’t make a functional app with it. And it’s not appropiate as a content editor so doesn’t even rise to the WYSIWYG abilities of something like Wordpress Gutenberg full-site editing or Squarespace.

          • jackalope@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            Ah yes I forgot. That was very slightly before my time in the industry. Remember playing around with komposer in college.

            That said Penpot can’t even create links or do any sort of routing. It’s not spitting out html and css. It’s spitting out specs that devs can use as reference when coding. PowerPoint is a more robust wysiwyg than penpot by a basic functionality measure.