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Show HN: Squiggle – A Sketch library for making low-fidelity wireframes

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I've been using Balsamiq Cloud for this purpose recently. https://balsamiq.cloud

Nice to see a way to do it in Sketch, finally.

FYI your site becomes a blank page for me a second or so after it loads. Something adds the class `newsletter-modal` to `<body>`. Seems like something relying on/expecting a third party script to load and then doing stuff.

I did create low-fidelity wireframes in the past. But it felt like low-fidelity wireframes just added extra noise and additional needed iterations.

By using high-fidelity UI kits, it is almost as easy to create wireframes without having to re-do a lot of work again.

Nevertheless, I also understand that there are cases where it can be useful and necessary. This is definitely a nice kit.

Isn't the whole meaning of a "wireframe", that it's just the wires of a frame? Just the outlines, no color etc. ?

IRL, yes. In UI design, it's more about speed of iteration than about what it looks like.

Oh, yes! I've been working on a paper based one - I love seeing these "rough draft" style tools which make iterating on the early stages of ideas. Thanks!

Hey thanks! Looks like you were/are involved with Discuss.io and you're in the Seattle area too (I'm in Mill Creek).

I have a SaaS product in the UXR space that I'd love to show you. Is the phone # on your site the best way to get in touch?

Email my handle at gmail

Looks great. Any plans for a Figma version?

Or Adobe XD?

Same as my comment above re: Figma version. The converter seems to do a lot of the heavy lifting, but I just don't know what I don't know about XD to ensure quality. Definitely open to an XD power user porting the kit and splitting revenues on it.

Thanks! I'm new to Figma so I have been relying on a really nice converter as a starting point (https://xd2sketch.com/), but I'd really like to take to take advantage of the auto layout feature and there still seems to be a lot of manual tuning required to get everything 1:1 with the Sketch version.

If a Figma expert wants to take that on I'd be more than happy to partner with them and split revenues on Figma version sales.

sean@squiggle.co

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