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·
    8 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·
      8 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·
        8 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·
          8 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·
      8 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·
      8 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.