Penpot: Open Source Prototyping and Design Platform
It is always good, especially in the field of Free Software and Open Source, having Software tools, which are installable or web, and allow us make jobs of various kinds to a professional level and with excellent quality.
And of course, when they are free or at least open, even better. And this is the case with "Penpot", which defines itself, as the First open source prototyping and design platform designed for multidisciplinary teams.
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Penpot: A Web Prototyping and Design Platform
What is Penpot?
According to its developers in its Official website, "Penpot" is verbatim the following:
"The first open source prototyping and design platform for multidisciplinary teams. Not dependent on operating systems, Penpot is web-based and works with open web standards (SVG). For everyone and empowered by the community."
Why try and use Penpot?
Certainly, in the free and open world, there is no workaround for all proprietary, closed, and commercial software tools. Above all, regarding design and prototype tools of the kind of Adobe XD, Codiqa, Figma, Framer, HotGloo, Invision, Pidoco, PowerMockup, Sketch and Webflow.
Therefore, "Penpot" It comes to fill a void in this regard. And best of all, apart from being from Open Source, is that, being a web it is totally accessible to everyoneregardless of your training, skills or purchasing power.
"Penpot" can be very useful for many design professionals, since, being a free and open source UX / UI tool makes it easier for developers to participate in the design process of manufactured products, thus closing the gap between UX / UI and Developers.
It is worth noting that, "Penpot" has been developed by a company called Kaleidos Open Source who has long been known for her commitment to the Free Software and Open Source.
Features
Briefly we can mention the following most important:
- It has a friendly interface and extremely easy to use on the web, which makes it suitable for many, especially multidisciplinary teams.
- It is attached to open standards, especially SVG. Which makes your files compatible with most vector tools.
- It is totally multiplatform, because, being based on the web, it does not depend on Operating Systems or installations, only a modern browser where it will be executed and that is all.
- It is built for and empowered by the community. Therefore, it offers extreme adaptability, since it allows the contribution of add-ons (plugins), among many other contributions.
To know more about "Penpot", you can explore its following official links:
Conclusion
We hope this "useful little post" about «Penpot» which promotes itself, as the first «Plataforma de diseño y creación de prototipos de código abierto» designed for multidisciplinary teams; is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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I stay like, what? I just know that it is a tool for prototyping, everything else is a salad of terms around free software. : /
Greetings, Autopilot. Certainly some articles are more informative than others, and others are more theoretical-practical than others. In this case, it is informative and the official links are left, so that after the basic and essential information about the commented application, the reader delves into the original sources.