Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets

by arsenkolyba • 6 years ago

18 15 6 years ago

Hey HN! This is something I've been working on for the last 6 months. I'm coming from a Product Design background (I'm actually still a product designer) and I've learned a lot building this product. Pretty much everything here is #nocode and is built mostly using Webflow.

The goal of this product is to be able to cover all (or most) routine tasks that designers do for them to be able to focus on creating products and not on designing email templates (or something else).

Would love to hear you feedback, especially designers!

nickthegreek• 6 years ago

dont change my cursor and to be honest, i cant stand the font.

arsenkolyba7• 6 years ago

thanks for the feedback!

meristem2• 6 years ago

(Me: UX/ Human Factors/ Prod Management background) A big thing in design is "form follows function". The pages you designed skew heavily to the form side of that equation. From a pure UX POV there are so many visual elements competing for attention that I cannot tell you what is important. I can tell you my heart rate went up while I tried to understand the site, and that now there is cortisol floating around. This is not a " delight" neurochemical reaction.

arsenkolyba7• 6 years ago

You can treat this as an art piece. This product is for designers mostly and one of my goals was to impress.

brulard• 6 years ago

Although it might be artistic or even pretty, I didn't figure it out and I leave feeling overwhelmed and very confused.

arsenkolyba7• 6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

kanobo• 6 years ago

Thanks for sharing, hn isn't quite the audience for the site's design, but fwiw I really like the quirky design - there's alot to appreciate and get inspiration from.

arsenkolyba7• 6 years ago

Still, thanks!

evanmaynard1• 6 years ago

I wanted to love the value prop here as a founder that just had our first professional design refresh. It's a great price for a lot of inspiration but too busy to use. Quirkiness impresses first but then starts to distract.

As a technical person, I've always wanted a design 101 best practices guide that could help me make better decisions on the fly. I'd definitely pay for an hour course/chapter that solved this problem and I was excited at first when I thought this was going that way!

Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets

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