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Discussion on: What do you think of static design tools?

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Danny de Vries

I used to think things had to be designed with a tool like Sketch or Figma before moving on to design. However, with things like Docz and Storybook, it just doesn't make as much sense to me anymore.

Indeed for small 'basic components' I don't really see the need for recreating those components withing sketch for every project. I assume most people use a boilerplate or Sketch Library of some sort.

Designing UI components like buttons and forms is simply easier to do in code, and once it's done, there's no need to do double the work.

What about digital designers on your team that don't know how to code and a design tool is their only medium to express themselves?

The fact that I can't design a button that has 16 pixels of padding around whatever text I put inside it in any of the top design tools right now is absurd to me.

Haha! There are plugins (such as paddy) that can do this.