Hello, this is Peter Duong the author of DrawExpress. One user had reminded me that I haven’t
updated this blog for a while. At that
time, I was updating features here and there.
However I felt that I wasn’t working on anything exciting to talk
about. You can follow my changes log to
get an idea of what have been done since.
Anyways, the “Features and Roadmap” page is turning out to be close to
the changes log. Now, I think it is
better to discuss about some of the major pain points and design decisions instead.
So looking back at all the features added recently, I feel that
some of them aren’t solved properly yet.
Although, it provides the added functionality, however it is still
lacking in the user experience aspect of DrawExpress. So I decided to take a step back to look at them
and come up with better a solution before moving forward. So for the next few
blogs I am opened to discussion and hopefully getting some insights from you.
Here is a list of things that I have in minds:
- Color workflow
- Line and curve
- Custom Library
- Project and file organization
- File sharing and synchronization
For this post I am going to discuss about the color
workflow. Right now the coloring
workflow is a bit confusing between the gesture and the style menu. For those wanting a better visual diagram
this is an area that will need improvement both in the UX and the coloring
options. I am still in favor of leaving
in the gesture option but it will need to support the ability to change text
and stroke. Right now you can use
gestures for fill and the menu for text and stroke.
Also, the color palette and theme is really rigid and will
need to be customizable. I do not think
it is necessary to create an open ended color mixture every time you want to
change the color. However, an ability
to replace some of the default colors on the bar with your own favorite would
be better. I must admit that the default
colors set aren’t well thought out.
Please feel free to leave your feedback regarding to this
topic here or email me at support@drawexpress.com. I’ll
be updating this blog with more implementation details later.
Regards,
PD
