[HN Gopher] Show HN: Open by Design
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Show HN: Open by Design
Author : krm01
Score : 85 points
Date : 2021-08-02 14:40 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| mglass3000 wrote:
| Where do all these assets come from?
| ramoz wrote:
| Nice, looks like some logodust as well:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001725
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| I've used these quite a bit over the years.
| krm01 wrote:
| Same team behind logodust. We'll be merging Logodust with Open
| by Design.
| kennydude wrote:
| Seems good especially when landing pages are added
| headelf wrote:
| The stickit is generating thousands of errors for me, might want
| to fix
| danpalmer wrote:
| While these look great, I do wonder if these sorts of templates
| are the right "level" of asset to work with.
|
| Most of these templates include a fairly developed information
| hierarchy, but for most applications the information hierarchy is
| the backbone of the UX and very tightly guided by the features of
| the application. By building too much of an information hierarchy
| do these sorts of templates over-fit to imaginary use-cases in a
| way that makes them useless for real world use?
|
| Perhaps this is less of an issue than I think, if users just pick
| and choose the bits, and use these less as a template and more of
| a design-system a bit like Bootstrap, but then are they losing
| the value that these provide? Alternatively maybe users are re-
| organising their applications to fit these templates and maybe
| that's ok if the information hierarchies are very well designed
| here, but I'm not sure that's a skillset that has been applied in
| creating these.
|
| Edit: looking through the Figma files, these are definitely not
| design systems, they're specific screens, and not very many of
| them. I can see these being useful as inspiration, but unsure how
| they could be used in an actual product.
| tokenpreneur wrote:
| > By building too much of an information hierarchy do these
| sorts of templates over-fit to imaginary use-cases in a way
| that makes them useless for real world use?
|
| Yes.
| ardit33 wrote:
| I agree with you. Many of these templates do offer specific
| cases, as that's how designers operate/think.
|
| They are not really generic components that can be used in
| different use cases that the designer didn't think of.
|
| But, they are a good source of inspiration though...
| the_arun wrote:
| Nice!
| stavros wrote:
| If I'm understanding this right, it's a template shop that gives
| away the Figma designs as a promo? That's nice, but calling it
| "open" is a bit of a stretch.
| sb8244 wrote:
| I'm a little confused by this comment.
|
| The assets are downloadable, open source in that you have
| access to the raw design asset, and are usable without
| attribution or payment. What about this is not open?
| rareform wrote:
| I believe they are referring to the fact that the 'coded'
| (HTML/CSS) version of the design is paid, and it is only the
| graphics and layout (i.e. "Figma" design) that is free.
| https://openby.design/codedtemplates.html
| sb8244 wrote:
| For sure, I get that. It seems like that implementation
| (HTML/CSS) is separate from the design here, which is
| totally cool. The designs are open-source and openly
| licensed, but the implementation is not. That seems fair
| given their business.
|
| The website mentions how the design world is closed off and
| they wanted to open this to do something about that. The
| attitude of "the implementation should also be open-source"
| seems like it reduces their efforts on the design side.
| stavros wrote:
| In my mind, calling something "open" means that everything on
| offer is open. Anyone is free to do whatever they want, of
| course, but I wouldn't call freeware (software) "open" even
| though it's free to use without payment.
| krm01 wrote:
| you are free to do whatever you want with the downloadable
| source files. Every design is completely open. From the
| dashboards, to the logos and upcoming other categories.
| stavros wrote:
| Alright.
| ekianjo wrote:
| What's an "open source" asset? You mean "creative commons"
| licensed?
| sb8244 wrote:
| It's not explicitly labeled as CC on the license page, but
| maybe it's still considered CC due to the wording:
| https://openby.design/license.html
|
| An asset is typically the final rendering of something, not
| the source that was used to develop that asset (image of
| design on Dribbble vs the Figma / Sketch files used to
| produce it). It's common for renderings to be made
| available online--although usually not explicitly licensed
| --but I more rarely see source made available.
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