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by YKreator 1851 days ago
In an ideal world the Figma UI Kit would always be synchronized with the online site (color style, fonts style,...) But we know that it is not that simple :-)

The advantage of your solution would be to always be able to start from the already existing online version. But is it possible to create a UI kit with assets?

Figma does a great job on managing components and state variables. And I already wished I could transform a screenshot into an element composed of several elements in Figma.

Anyway it's a great idea and product.

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The original vision for NextUX was to convert your website or web app into vector elements so you can quickly make design changes.

Since this is technically challenging, I focused on the next best thing, capturing a screenshot that can be cut up into pieces with the app.

I still plan on allowing users to convert live or locally hosted websites and web apps into a design files that you can edit. Hopefully, I can launch something along these lines in a few months.

I also would love to somehow use ML to provide suggestions based on design best practices.

I've written a lot of content on common dos and don't of design on Medium. https://medium.com/@CoyleAndrew

Some of my best articles include "Design better forms" https://medium.com/nextux/design-better-forms-96fadca0f49c, "Design better data tables" https://medium.com/nextux/design-better-data-tables-4ecc99d2..., "Form design for complex apps" https://medium.com/nextux/form-design-for-complex-applicatio..., and "Design better cards" https://medium.com/nextux/design-better-cards-c0d12ab581c4.

I wonder if I can program these best practices to provide suggestions as you design. Kinda like grammerly for design.

And some day, I'd love to build an app that builds designs automatically based on your thoughts and inspirations.

I'd love your thoughts on implementing something like this.

Thank you!

I would love to be able to generate a UI Kit by selecting several sites that I like.

This is usually part of the designer's creation phase.

It would be nice to be able to create your own UI Kit by selecting different choices of site inspirations, then choose what you prefer, dark or light theme, colors, do you want your sections to have borders or not, do you want a corner radius, do you change the color between each section or do you prefer a full page,...

Good luck

Yeah that would be awesome! I love the idea of creating a mood board of inspiration and the app suggests UI system styles based off of it.