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Hey everyone 👋 I’m Thibaud, Hexa’s cofounder. For those who don’t know Hexa, we’re a startup studio that’s built over 40 products, many of which have become great SaaS success stories like Aircall, Front, Spendesk. Every product that we ever built has followed the same process: it begins with creating low-fidelity wireframes, with the entire team. But the process of building low-fidelity wireframes is flawed. It begins with founders and product managers who create the first wireframes in one tool, then designers convert these into mock-ups in another tool, developers code the final product, and marketers introduce it to the market. This results in inefficiencies and silos and creates sub-par products. We are firm believers that it is by 👏 bringing the whole team👏 into the low-fidelity wireframing process that we can build game-changing products: more options are considered, iterations happen quickly, and you avoid becoming attached to any one style too early-on. It doesn’t only lead to better product discussions, it also leads to superior products. But we never found the right tool to do just that. Traditional wireframing tools were only adopted by founders & product managers, while designers stayed on Figma. So we decided to build Blocks 🤗 Blocks is a low-fidelity wireframing tool that happens right in Figma. With Blocks: 🟧 You’ll never ever have to switch from wireframing tools to design tools ever again 🟧 Your whole team will get to participate in the most crucial part of product building 🟧 You'll be able to wireframe any idea you've got on your mind with our library of best-in-class components 🟧 You'll wireframe much faster with drag-and-drop and endless customization 🟧 You'll have the best product conversations with all of your team - and build the best products! Great products are born on Blocks. Get started now: https://www.blocks.pm/

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1yr ago

Jason Davey

@tiboel I'm interested in why your SaaS product approach starts with wireframing...rather than with user/customer research into digital product usage behaviours?

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1yr ago

Gerald Mamengko

@tiboel I'm curious. Can you answer his question?

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2mo ago

Mike Bartlett

Slite

Looks great. Although, am I doing something wrong? Whenever I drag a component - say a sidebar into a desktop browser - it locks the position of the element. I have to click on the "Absolute position" button each time to move it, feels like an extra click that's not needed.

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1yr ago

Victor Gross

Blocks

Maker

@mydigitalself hey Mike, thanks for your feedback. I guess you have difficulties handling Figma's auto-layout for the component you dropped ! We are going to deactivate it in the component so that it doesn't trouble in the future

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1yr ago

Mike Bartlett

Slite

@vicgrss Hey Victor. It just behaves weirdly by default. Here's a Loom on a completely fresh Figma draft. https://www.loom.com/share/25dcf...

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1yr ago