Trying out this whole "building publicly" thing 🤞

Hello everyone!

My name is Kieran Parker, I am a Product Designer who loves to work within the startup world and over the last few years have made a few of my own projects (which can all be seen on my Twitter or Personal Site).

During these other builds, I would share little previews or updates here or there, but always feel discourages as it felt like I was shouting into the void. I always start it with good intentions but always end up building it silently until launch day.

The other week, I stumbled upon a thread where someone had documented their entire journey via a twitter thread, and it was a great read to see it slowly start, seem them pivot ideas, build, develop and eventually start turning a nice monthly income. I want that, I want a sort of digital diary of my process out there for the world to see for each project I work on.

And so, this is my commitment to start with this one.

The Product
As a designer, I have used a couple different "Design Kits" in the past. However, the way a lot of them are built allow for minimal customizability without complete dissecting the kit and making it your own. More often than not it ends up becoming such a large task to update, manage and use it how you like that it is often easier to make your own.

Inspired by indie hackers interview with UX Power Tools, I feel there is a better way to approach creating Design Kits and offering it to designers and startups alike. A way that uses more conditional logic and modular building techniques so that editing one thing to make it your own, doesn't break the kit.

I am going to call it Simplekits.

Current State
So, I have already made a Design System kit, which was initially called Simplekits" (https://simplekits.co/) but I want to expand into a "family" of Design Kits, aiming to solve different issues, niches, and categories. Whilst holding them all under one roof/brand.

This week I start the design process, of re-creating the branding and website to better suit my overall mission, of making simple to use Design Kits.

My hope, is that some of you are able to give input and feedback on how you would like to use such kits, and what you would find helpful. So that I can build a better product.

I hope you will join me on this journey and that I will see you again next week 👋