PenPot Tutorial - The Open Source UI/UX Design App

PenPot gonna destroy Figma for sure , Adobe gonna cry day and night 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I like v much this app

I knew you going to make a video about penpot since adobe bought figma.

wow. nice app. thanks for this

Adobe bought Figma, and we use PenPot.

Thanks!

Is it possible to Design a portfolio in Figma, Adobe xd, etc. and connect it to a domain or are those simply Design tools that you would have to then translate into HTML, CSS, and Javascript in order to create an actual website?

Thankfully there will always be awesome people developing new software that we can use instead of Adobe.

now we're talking 😎

Figma is being developed since 2012. PenPot only since 2018. So, give PenPot 6 more years and imagine where they would be!

Thank you for a great intro to PenPot. You rock!

I would like to make a clarification here Gary, open source doesn't automatically mean free. This one might be, but open source means that the code is not proprietary, but instead is open to the public and oftentimes built by the public.

With Adobe acquiring Figma I might actually be forced to take this into consideration lmao

Do a video roasting TheVerge redesign plz.

One thing that PenPot have and Figma don't which is for me essential for prototyping is ability to make multiple actions for same trigger. For example you want something to be triggered when you click on button, but also you want something else to be triggered on same click. The most common thing we need for prototyping and 20 billion dollar software don't have it but open source PenPot does :)

They get auto layout and a few other things working it would be awesome!

Not polished but will do. Apart from PenPot, one another option is "Lunacy", which has both web-app as well as a desktop app.

Have a look at Lunacy next please.

I wonder which app the PenPot creators use(d) to prototype PenPot 😁

Which other software do you think is good for prototyping?

I think Launcay is a better alternative to figma, Adobe xd and sketch.
And more stable available on mac, Windows and Linux

Awe, the hidden gem got revealed. 🥰

version, standard is more than sufficient

Please, take a look at lunacy.

Lunacy has been my go to since I am a freelancer - if I need to collaborate, Penpot will be my choice!. I ditched Adobe 4 yrs ago for Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, & Affinity Photo - best choice I ever made!!!!

This looks promising...To be honest, I don't like using Figma even before the buyout.

You can get fine-grain zoom control by holding Space, then holding CTRL or CMD, and click-dragging your mouse up and down

If the tools you work with are free eventually you'll be working for free

Pen pot. Waste of time.

As a broke Ass, I've been using penpot for like 2 years. I love it. But I've also never paid for the bigger named packages. So I don't know what I'm missing.

They will definitely improve on it but generally a good app

Open source community have always hated when some tool is bought some big brands, so check this comment after a year, you will have PenPot will already have matured in a rocket speed, because community always like freedom !

Autolayout is the new resource from this software.

Pro tip #1:
If you want smooth zooming, you can hold middle mouse button and ctrl, and move the mouse up and down for a much better zoom experience.

Pro tip #2:
You can create gradients in Inkscape with as many stops as you like, then import them into Penpot as SVGs.

Pro tip #3:
To get the text to vertically align inside your button, stretch the height of the text box to match the button rectangle (exactly like you did to make it center horizontally), and set the text alignment to middle (icons next to the text center buttons). This will now be aligned properly in the vertical direction in the middle of your button when you resize.

How to create another board that is sub board ?? I'm so confused

The best open source alternative to Figma is a notebook and pencil

it seems a bit more "easy to start". At the other hand it could be to easy in the long run, sure all the grids, and autolayout stuff in figma isnt easy the first time, but in the end you have clearly structured webdesigns with some constraints and dependencies which are working perfectly together. Im not sure about, but yeah still nice tool and impressive for the short time of 5 years :)

Edit: I visited the website of penpot, you can host it by yourself... thats INSANE !

I would give money to Penpot every day of the week. Screw Figma, they made it so that you have to go through a nightmare every time you need to get a color off it if you don't have the developer license.

What are your thoughts on the Adobe / Figma acquisition? I think no matter what happens, we'll all be a-ok. ;)