My Feedback so far

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After creating a website: https://youthful-aryabhata-f1654e.netlify.app/ in Graphite, here is the feedback

Ease of use

Provide:

  1. Layer and section Renaming
  2. 'Add' panel separately and 'layer' panel separately. (I want to add an element directly in the layer panel rather than the screen)
  3. Absolute layer alignment
  4. Nudging
  5. Send to back , send to front
  6. Hide option in layer panel same like figma with eye icon
  7. Components like Figma
  8. custom icons without faIcon name
  9. take me to column or layer when i click it in panel
  10. design styles- font and color for mobile and tab separately just like Grid.

Not working or errors

  1. Hide on Device- for absolute
  2. Hiding layer on Desktop hides in Mobile as well
  3. Hide on device still shows up when it is hideen, it should be showing show on device instead.

Features

  1. CMS
  2. Expand option in Animation.(Search bar expanding)
  3. Menu drop down button
  4. a functional search that actually searches the website
  5. blur effect or glass morphism
  6. custom fonts
  7. Embed video without code snippet.
  8. Clicking on object A moves Object B in animation. ( Eg: Clicing on search button expands the input field of seach)
  9. Scroll to sections in same page.( eg: clicking on features button scrolls down to features of the same page)
  10. More responsive break points for more devices
  11. option to change netlify sub domain name
  12. Figma to Graphite plugin like Quest.ai

What will make me choose Graphite as a UI / UX designer :

  1. Provide unlimited files to create and publish in netlify same like Figma (in free tier)
  2. Same design possibilities as of Webflow
  3. Cheaper Hosting like Dorik.io

Why I don't use Webflow?

  1. Restricts me to just 2 files and just 2 pages
  2. Clients dont want webflow because of high hosting fees.

Why I don't use Wordpress?

  1. maintenance
  2. hundreds of plugins
  3. less security
  4. Less design possibilites

Tools am trying on the side along with Graphite

Dorik.io

Quest.ai

Weweb

Vev

Siter

Quarkly

Plasmic

Designmodo

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Fandy Diadline

For a cheap and neat page, I use other web builder. Unicorn Platform.
And now I'm looking other options, Graphite is more freedom, but also it is not "there" yet.

Layer name is not editable.

Resizing image suddenly change the stacking order (MS Words meme material?)

Adding component is very tedious job. Because I always worry my margin, space, size, etc is not in a harmony.


When duplicating, there is a weird feeling dragging a section from point A to point B.
"Is it moving?" "Is it in the right place?"

Rather than click & drag, I prefer if Graphite add an arrows, up and down. Just click up to move up. The end. No worries.

Your review is on the same page as I what wanted to say. I hope Graphite team can update more frequently. Tiny update a week is OK than giant update in a year.

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Viktor Kadnikov
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For a cheap and neat page, I use other web builder. Unicorn Platform.
And now I'm looking other options, Graphite is more freedom, but also it is not "there" yet.

Layer name is not editable.

Resizing image suddenly change the stacking order (MS Words meme material?)

Adding component is very tedious job. Because I always worry my margin, space, size, etc is not in a harmony.


When duplicating, there is a weird feeling dragging a section from point A to point B.
"Is it moving?" "Is it in the right place?"

Rather than click & drag, I prefer if Graphite add an arrows, up and down. Just click up to move up. The end. No worries.

Your review is on the same page as I what wanted to say. I hope Graphite team can update more frequently. Tiny update a week is OK than giant update in a year.

Hi Fandy,

Thank you for your honest feedback! It helps us a lot to find and discover problems.
And thank you for trying our product and digging deeper.

Can you please describe the problem with resizing and stacking order in more detail?
Something similar is possible when you resize an element in the Container where the ‘Wrap’ option is turned on. But there is nothing we can do with it - it’s the nature of CSS and flex-box behaviour. And we don’t want to limit this feature because it helps to create some types of layout.

Great idea about ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ arrows. We are on the same side. Also for now, you can use the Layers panel to sort sections.

And we are researching all the feedback from the community forum and putting suggestions in our backlog. Now we’re working on a few big features (e.g. sections library) and also made a lot of tech work under the hood to keep the product flexible. After that we are going to release new updates more frequently. And I hope that we can make the Graphite experience better with new updates soon.

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Fandy Diadline
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Hi Fandy,

Thank you for your honest feedback! It helps us a lot to find and discover problems.
And thank you for trying our product and digging deeper.

Can you please describe the problem with resizing and stacking order in more detail?
Something similar is possible when you resize an element in the Container where the ‘Wrap’ option is turned on. But there is nothing we can do with it - it’s the nature of CSS and flex-box behaviour. And we don’t want to limit this feature because it helps to create some types of layout.

Great idea about ‘Up’ and ‘Down’ arrows. We are on the same side. Also for now, you can use the Layers panel to sort sections.

And we are researching all the feedback from the community forum and putting suggestions in our backlog. Now we’re working on a few big features (e.g. sections library) and also made a lot of tech work under the hood to keep the product flexible. After that we are going to release new updates more frequently. And I hope that we can make the Graphite experience better with new updates soon.

Thanks for your explanation. Sorry English is not my native language.

Maybe my feedback quite confusing.

I'll wait the updates, you guys have so much potential.


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