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Designers and developers need a marketplace to find and share high-quality design resources
Creative professionals spend too much time searching for design assets, templates, and code snippets. They need a curated marketplace with quality resources they can trust and use in projects.
YC Graveyard10y agoTemplateDesign & Creative
Companies need to find and hire quality mobile/product designers
Businesses struggle to discover and connect with talented mobile and product designers in an increasingly crowded freelance market.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDesign & Creative
3D modeling software is too complex for beginners who want to 3D print
Most 3D modeling tools like Blender are overwhelming for casual users who just want to create simple objects for 3D printing. The learning curve is too steep.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDesign & Creative
iPad users need professional-quality drawing and design tools
Creative professionals and hobbyists want powerful digital art software optimized for tablet interfaces that rivals desktop applications.
YC Graveyard16y agoToolDesign & Creative
Version control and collaboration for designers
Designers need version control for their design files and better collaboration tools, similar to how developers use Git for code.
YC Graveyard14y agoToolDesign & Creative
[charts] Implement Gantt Chart
## Survey We want to understand your use cases better, so we're collecting your requirements for our Gantt Charts in a mini-survey. Please share what you need: https://tally.so/r/m6MBNo ## Summary This is about supporting people to implement Gantt Charts and the corresponding methodology: For something that is "lighter"; please refer to the Timeline component: #20595. ## Benchmarks Public, read only: https://mui-org.notion.site/Gantt-Chart-component-e0014e4a55ae44fe901d575b1886e78e Internal, write & read: https://www.notion.so/mui-org/Gantt-Chart-component-e0014e4a55ae44fe901d575b1886e78e ## Requests - https://www.notion.so/mui-org/2e8cbfe7b6608012bbd5f29e4fef8bbc - https://mui.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/20549 - https://www.notion.so/mui-org/cfce9cf916cf49adb1be9109eb51d216 - https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/12b9y2m/does_anyone_know_a_good_free_gantt_chart_library/ - https://mui.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/26925 ## MUI X Gantt chart https://mui.com/x/react-charts/gantt/
GitHub3y agoToolDesign & Creative
Digital art software requires frequent restarts for basic operations
Art software like Clip Studio fails at simple tasks like drag-and-drop into folders, forcing multiple app restarts.
X7mo agoToolDesign & Creative
CAD software is frustrating for hand-sketching professionals
Designers and engineers who prefer hand drawing find current CAD software difficult and hate using it, needing better transition from sketches to 3D models.
X7mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Founders and PMs lose days converting rough UI ideas into mockups before development
Early-stage teams need to validate UI concepts quickly but spend days having designers create mockups from sketches or verbal descriptions, delaying development sprints. Current workflows require back-and-forth iterations between non-designers and designers, creating bottlenecks. This slow feedback loop means founders can't test ideas fast enough to stay competitive, especially when operating lean without dedicated design resources.
Product Hunt8mo agoToolDesign & Creative
Developers waste time translating visual design changes into code without direct UI manipulation tools
Frontend developers spend significant time manually writing code to implement visual design changes, often going back and forth between design mockups and code editors. The traditional design handoff process creates friction between what designers envision and what developers implement. Without visual editing tools that directly modify code, developers must mentally translate visual changes into proper code syntax, leading to slower iteration cycles and potential mismatches between design intent and final implementation.
Product Hunt8mo agoToolDesign & Creative