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by mnicole 5021 days ago
Hi Kate, you guys are probably still tweaking away and have all of this noted, but I'll post some issues I have anyway:

- Thought I was saving the page from the Settings drop-down where it shows me the URL to my site and says "Update", rather than the "Done" button to the top right.

- Expected to be able to drag-and-drop the images to the canvas so I could do it en mass instead of click them, then have the clipart stick to my cursor until I dropped it/resized it before going back into the images panel.

- Not being able to see that the elements have styles attributed to them without clicking into them is kind of rough.

- Outlining an object by a bounding-box instead of the shape of the object can get confusing when you have multiple layers.

- In the layers drop-down, everything is listed as a "Text" element. Some without any description (shape preview would be nice). Should be able to delete the object after selecting it from within this panel too.

- I think the layout would be easier/more familiar for people if the top bar options were vertically-aligned to be a toolbar, and if the user actions bar at the bottom was up at the top right. Have a separate floating box or one that comes in from the right side for when you select an object that has attributes/FX to fiddle with.

- You can see the code but not edit it?

- Just realized where the background editor was. That should be a part of the primary toolbar.

Otherwise really interesting, would be great for creating quick instruction manuals and simple product pages. Like someone else mentioned, I am waiting on ReadyMag for this kind of publishing tool, but I like where things are headed here moreso than some other editors I've come across.

1 comments

Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Yeah, we're definitely still tweaking the design and some of these issues are just things we haven't gotten to yet (3 person team - we're hiring!).

We did have the toolbar vertically-aligned before, but found that it got in people's way a lot more when they were trying to design the page.

Also, I'm kate@scrollkit.com if there's anything else you come across, this stuff is super helpful for us.