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by flixic 4571 days ago
Interesting and promising! A few points: (for context, I'm a decent developer working as designer)

- Considering the usual use of PSDs (contract work, most of it is under some sort of NDA), online uploading tool makes this a bit worrisome. I would much prefer drag-and-drop offline solution, similar to Slicy app. That would fit into designers' workflow and we could see some improvements.

- Right now the "grading" areas are few, and somewhat questionable. Mostly questionable is the use of different fonts and font sizes. Many designs benefit from 5-6 different fonts, slightly varying in weight and sizes for best legibility. Some designs are only possible because of that. Much more meaningful insights would be, for instance, non-integer font sizes (23.989 instead of 24), or use of too many font families, opposed to just "fonts" (same family, different weights).

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this is true but if you don't take the grades to heart it doesn't really matter I guess except that it swings the overall figure.

Improvements can be made though for sure. It could be a personalized machine learning algorithm but I don't think it's there yet :D

Or, better yet, how bout building this into Photoshop... run the lint & have it suggest re-factorings for the user?

> Several non-integer font sizes are used. OK to refactor?

> Shall we re-organize layers/blending?

+1 for turning this into a Photoshop plugin