Show HN: Noya (YC W21) – A wireframing tool that generates designs and code(noya.io)
noya.io
Show HN: Noya (YC W21) – A wireframing tool that generates designs and code
https://www.noya.io
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Love the idea! I've used balsamiq for many years to describe product specs and constantly had to battle "these are just boxes and lines" comments from execs, ux, and developers. Will there be a way for me to provide my own design system? Or even better, suck up my existing product and give me a way to wireframe within it?
Thanks for the feedback :) I'm glad to hear we're not that only ones who've run into this problem!
Providing your own design system is definitely on the roadmap! We made a prototype of being able to wireframe with your existing components within a NextJS app - it was pretty cool, and we want to explore that more.
Providing your own design system is definitely on the roadmap! We made a prototype of being able to wireframe with your existing components within a NextJS app - it was pretty cool, and we want to explore that more.
Wow, awesome demo and love the idea.
As a developer explaining some stuff to marketing, sales, ux etc this is so cool.
Simple things like dark, accent with hashtags and slash commands really adds so much ease to show stuff.
Wishing all the very best. Will signup soon and test it out.
I'm glad you like the idea! If you try it out, feel free to lemme know how it goes.
This is awesome. Will definitely be playing with this tomorrow.
My cofounder David and I were previously on the Design Tools team at Airbnb, where we built lots of innovative tools to improve the design process internally. Now we’re trying to bring this caliber of tools to everyone.
The first problem we’re trying to solve is the age-old problem of working in low fidelity vs. high fidelity when designing UI. Low fidelity wireframes are great for quick iteration while hashing out the main idea, while high fidelity mockups and prototypes are often better for conveying the idea to teammates or pitching the idea to customers.
With Noya, you get to work in low fidelity, while still getting a high fidelity output you can share. Noya does this by converting your low fidelity blocks into high fidelity design system & React components.
I think of the current version as an MVP still, since there’s a lot more that I want to add, but I’ve personally been finding it useful even with its limited feature set. I’d be very interested in any early feedback if you have a chance to play with it!
PS: We’ve open sourced most of Noya at https://github.com/noya-app/noya. Let us know if you’re interested in collaborating.