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...
  • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
    1452·
    9 months ago

    I hate when i have to go 4 links deep to get an explanation of what it even is.

    • tarius@lemmy.ml
      54·
      9 months ago

      Penpot is the first open-source design tool for design and code collaboration. Designers can create stunning designs, interactive prototypes, design systems at scale, while developers enjoy ready-to-use code and make their workflow easy and fast. And all of this with no handoff drama.

      https://github.com/penpot/penpot

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
        25·
        9 months ago

        It doesn’t explicitly say so but it’s apparently for people who make web sites. Who would make anything else anyway (I suppose).

        • vonbaronhans
          41·
          9 months ago

          It’s vector art. You can design all sorts of things. App layouts, website design, logo design, basically anything that is visual and will need to scale up and down without loss of detail.

            • vonbaronhans
              3·
              8 months ago

              Like most FOSS projects… they’re awful at promoting what they actually do on their website front page, instead focusing on FOSS buzzwords. It’s unfortunately a thing.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      195·
      9 months ago

      Well, I didn’t like having to wait for their Discourse forum page to load myself. I added their Fediverse account link as well to ease discomfort.

      https://penpot.app/

      Design and code beautiful products. Together. Penpot is the web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      I wouldn’t expect a blog post to explain what it is, as they’re generally designed for people aware of the project. I doubt they’re the ones that posted it here. Instead of clicking links, I just went to the main site and very quickly understood what it was.

    • tuckerm@supermeter.social
      20·
      9 months ago

      This blog post is pretty buzzword-heavy, but Penpot is a legitimately great tool. It’s used for UI design and layouts. I’ve seen a couple of open source projects use a self-hosted Penpot instance for working on and discussing new designs.

      Figma would be the most popular, proprietary example of this type of tool. I’m not aware of any open source competitors besides Penpot.

      edit: It’s like Google docs for web page layouts or app layouts. The animation on their homepage is probably the best way of showing what it does.

    • jackalope@lemmy.ml
      8·
      9 months 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.

      • taanegl@lemmy.world
        12·
        9 months ago

        Did you read the new features? CSS and HTML component testing, complete with web scalability (I.e media-query). Sounds very WYSIWYG to me.

        But yeah, I know it’s an open source Figma, because Figma can ligma balls.

        • jackalope@lemmy.ml
          11·
          9 months 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·
              9 months 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.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    Great, now let us know what’s on the roadmap for Taiga

      • 4am@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        Same company makes it, last I heard they announced big plans for Taiga, and then it’s been crickets.

        Maybe this has changed, but I haven’t seen anything recently.

  • electricprism@lemmy.ml
    311·
    9 months ago

    Those OSX screenshots really are selling me on this being a FOSS thing I could get behind /s NOT!!

    • XNX@slrpnk.net
      41·
      9 months ago

      Because windows is more open source than mac os? How many designers use linux? The Mac os screenshots is their target audience of designers and plenty of mac users prefer open source apps

        • garrett@lemm.ee
          7·
          9 months ago

          Penpot works perfectly on Linux, and you can even host it yourself in your own computer if you want. It’s web-based and works in both Firefox and Chromium browsers. (I think WebKit ones too, but it’s been a little while since I’ve tried it with Epiphany.)

          I use Penpot myself all the time on Linux, but I’m usually using the hosted version so I can collaborate with others without having to maintain a server. I have also run locally in a container using Podman, even with Podman’s rootless support.

          But to start using it, all anyone needs to do is point their browser of choice to https://design.penpot.app/ and sign in. There is no setup process or installation needed; self-hosting is completely optional.