"Time-saving" Generators for Designers

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by macos • 15 years ago

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swombat• 15 years ago

These are actually pretty neat. Bookmarked.

brador2• 15 years ago

These are great, but I'd like more things like Twitter bootstrap. Anyone know any?

mindhunter• 15 years ago

zurb released a comparable and quite beautiful framework called 'foundation' http://foundation.zurb.com/

brador2• 15 years ago

Not seen that one before, thanks!

I've also found skeleton: http://www.getskeleton.com/

mkelley82• 15 years ago

I discovered ZURB's Foundation 1-2 months ago, and I absolutely fell in love with it. My only problem is I started developing a site with it, and before I knew it they had already shipped out a new version - they are apparently at a stage where their release cycle is pretty quick. I ended up deciding to take a day to convert the project over to the latest version of Foundation, 2.1.3 as of this writing.... here is their github repository: https://github.com/zurb/foundation - I love it.

maeon32• 15 years ago

I try so hard not to be bothered by his "pstck" slurping sound after every period of every sentence, but I can't quite do it. Pstck.

Was going to upvote, but I'm not going to. tslsck. The lip smacking seems to get into my subconscious and makes my skin crawl. pslk.

MagicClam• 15 years ago

Huh?

maeon32• 15 years ago

The pslick sound, at the end of every sentence. If you are hard of hearing I can run it through a speech to text program and have it report that "pslick" is not a valid sentence.

It bugs the hell out of me and lots of people do it. Stop it. Its like farting on stage so the mic picks it up. The audience shouldent have to tell others that it is aggrevating.

sgdesign2• 15 years ago

I'm the guy who did Patternify, in case you have any questions/feedback.

macos• 15 years ago

where can i send you feed back

sgdesign2• 15 years ago

You can use the contact form on my site: http://sachagreif.com or do it via twitter: http://twitter.com/SachaGreif

JonnieCache• 15 years ago

Another background pattern generator at http://www.patterncooler.com/

It has a built in pattern editor, I think it uses some svg madness. It's very impressive.

kellishaver• 15 years ago

I was bored/tinkering a while back and wrote a couple little generators for creating favicons and/or 16x16px PNG icons, and one for creating CSS sprites from multiple images. They're nowhere near as polished, but functional.

PNG/Favicon maker: http://ico.orng.us/

CSS sprite generator: http://spritebuilder.orng.us/

mrspeaker• 15 years ago

Do the quotes indicate that they think these are really not time savers?

haldean• 15 years ago

Yeah, that was my first thought as well. They seem really "useful".

nitrogen• 15 years ago

Note to sibling comment by ibisum: it looks like your post on Easter Island heads have bodies got your account algo-killed.

ChrisCooper• 15 years ago

It could also be referring to some of the comments that the tools are addictive.

jjets718• 15 years ago

What about Twitter Bootstrap? That's pretty useful.

DTrejo• 15 years ago

Please change the title to

    "Time-saving" Generators for Designers

as per the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

mwsherman• 15 years ago

These are pretty helpful, especially for those of us who aren’t designers or don’t have them at beck and call. Favicons are a good example, as well as the little progress spinners.

mikeleeorg• 15 years ago

I love ColourLovers because I'm not always the best at selecting a color palette. So Pictaculous looks pretty neat too. I thought it was only going to give me the top few color averages of the photo I submitted, but it appears to be giving me more than that. Nice.

MaxGabriel• 15 years ago

While on this topic, anyone have a tool like this for creating iOS buttons? I've found a few but they've not worked

antichaos• 15 years ago

Shameless plug: http://www.neatgrid.com for creating pixel-perfect grid layouts.

jongalloway2• 15 years ago

Fail for missing Cosby: http://cosby.secretgeek.net/

"Time-saving" Generators for Designers

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