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Would this UX work for you?

by Jonathan Schneider

Hi fellow no-coders, I'd like to know your opinions!

metaexplorer dribbble preview

I'm working on a no/low-code editor for web Apps (and parts of Apps). It's not WYSIWYG, instead visuals and data access can be connected in one place.

Let's say you saw this on a coworker's screen - would you look, or look away? 😉

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 on July 8, 2020
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    Hey @jonathanshnyder nice work

    I'm afraid I'd walk away. I understand you're trying to facilitate the logic tree and make it simpler for people to build apps. However I found the UI is a bit complicated and unable to see the difference (i.e. color and contrast of the dashboard)

    Anyway, would be awesome to exchange opinions around #nocode, let's chat on twitter :)

    felix12777
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    4 years ago
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      A tool is only complicated if you're not the creator of that tool cough ;-P

      And that's exactly why it's very valuable feedback, thank you @felix12777! This started as a tool for myself, but how do you guys imagine your ideal nocode/low-code-world?

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      Feedback and learnings so far:

      It could be 1) simpler 2) have better visuals and 3) people have told me the video is too fast. The original is 1 minute long, Dribbble only allows <24 seconds for video on their Pro plan, so complex UX demos have to be split up - or made simpler. Now it's 4x, going to test 2x or 3x for the next round.

      Some ideas for tests:
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      • WYSIWYG vs node-editors: What is something you can't do with WYSIWYG? What is something you can't imagine without WYSIWYG any more?
      • are property panels for nodes interesting, like blender (see screenshot)? They're working on an "everything nodes" project - but is this good for all users?

      screenshot of blender shader node editor and preview

      • Is it because it's white text on dark background? I've seen lots of browser based nocode-editors using white backgrounds, while lots of 3D-editors use dark backgrounds.
      • If you're in a browser, would you prefer a light background?
      • Most coders use dark text editors, do you ever look at nocode-editors long enough that it becomes painful for your eyes?

      And also 2)
      ... learned lessons for visuals: Don't take screenshots of cropped, sped up videos. Dribbble requires 4:3 video, so I've taken the video with loom on a bad connection, and had codec issues after cropping. Next time I'll go to browser-fullscreen and adjust the computer's screen resolution to 4:3 to avoid that. I really don't know why I didn't think about that earlier.

      This would be the quality for the user:

      metaexplorer screenshot in full quality

      For anyone interested, the blender team has done some interesting UX research for node editors: https://developer.blender.org/T67088

      jonathanshnyder
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      4 years ago
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