Comment by kemyd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by kemyd | Hacker News Reader

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Hey,

Thank you for your feedback.

1. The "Shuffle Styles" changes everything except tabs with a padlock icon. You can lock settings you like and then keep shuffling.

2. Shuffle is our main product (check https://shuffle.dev/new). Until now, we have only had UI libraries we created ourselves. You can adjust them to your needs in the editor, but the UI Library Creator is a tool to create libraries we don't have.

3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly.

4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc. For example, you can view components of Saturn Library: https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn

5. Assets and Copy are last because they are not this tool's "killer feature"- Styles are. :) However, when creating a UI library, it is best to lock them at the beginning so you can focus on styles, not texts and images.

Appreciate engagement with a longer comment! Thanks

> 3. Can you tell me more about this "intrusive ad"? Probably, I didn't understand it correctly.

Yepp.

https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/about-us

The second item is some static "house ad" for Alternatives. On this page, it stands out well, and I can tell it's not actually part of the search results. The annoying animation of course means it's distracting in an otherwise quiet page, but whatever.

The problem is I started clicking around on https://shuffle.dev/components/all/all/dashboard-forms, where all the real search results are also dark themed, and there it's just confusing and irrelevant. Had it been just a banner, it would have been more visually obvious that you're just trying to distract me, and that it's not part of the search result.

> 4. UI Libraries are sets of components grouped into categories, like headers, pricing, etc.

If I look at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/pricing, you're telling me this is a component. To me, the word component signifies an atom, something simple with a single purpose. This makes me think the "component" you talk about is one of the columns, but I think you mean it's the entire layout, including header. I.e. some assembly of components (perhaps super-component), in my taxonomy. That doesn't fit the bill of "atomic" and my brain just spins around trying to make sense of it all.

OTOH, looking at https://shuffle.dev/components/all/saturn/footer, it seems that you're showing more than just a footer? I.e. what you are showing me is not the component, but the component in an example context. It's taken me five views of your search results to reverse engineer what it is I'm looking at, and understanding what your product is.

Perhaps make the irrelevant parts shaded? Or add a toggleable frame around the actual component?

It's an "ad" for our tool that helps build websites in many styles at once (60+ libraries we have in Shuffle). I'll ask our designer to make it less irritating. ;)

We have used the term "components" for a long time. Some call them "sections" or "blocks". Still, I think "component" is a valid name, and many websites with components/sections/blocks use it.

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