*raises hand*. This look interesting.
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Super stoked to be onboarding people to Onlook – Check it out and let me know if you want early access! onlook.dev/
Onlook – The developer tool for designers
Onlook is the first-ever developer tool for designers. Let designers contribute directly to your UI codebase. No setup or programming experience required.
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Thanks man! <3 I took a bunch of clients with me from Sweden and moved over here. Now I'm just doing bare minimum and then filling the rest of my time with family and side projects.. living my best life :D
Do you use storybook a lot? We sit a little higher up on the UI layer than at the component layer now, but definitely want to make building components easy for designers.
Unfortunately not, there's definitely still a gap. Storybook feels like documentation for design->dev barrier but doesn't seem to actually bridge it. As a designer I often update the design system and components but it seems to take ages to reach the dev stage.
This sounds super interesting. I'm quite comfortable with web frontend development, and I would love to see more tools like this to bridge design and engineering closer! Is this tool specifically for designers who code, or for any designer without much knowledge of code?
It's for designers that don't know how to code (but with some features for the designers that do know how to code). The idea is to make it ultra slick and easy for any designer to start seeing how their changes translate to code but also let then push to GitHub super easily
Sounds awesome! I asked the question as I’ve sometimes found it hard to introduce a production friendly tool to designers as it sounds like ‘you need to learn code’.
Appreciate it Jonas! Do you do a lot of web design or mobile design or what design field are you a victim to?
Looks interesting. I'm comfortable using regular developer tools/code but I'm curious to see how this would offer a different experience tailored for designers.
We make it super easy for designers to jump in to web products and start editing without the initial project setup, but if they want to push their changes they can submit a PR directly from Onlook to the GH repo. 😎
Just signed up for the waitlist! I’m a Squarespace designer and don’t code at all
This looks super interesting. Design tools have progressed so much over the last few years but I've always had this feeling that we're trying to bridge the gap from the wrong end. Happy to see something a little different!