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VisBug: Brings design tool interactions and hotkeys to the browser (github.com/googlechromelabs)
56 points by tnorthcutt on Nov 15, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



It sounds cool, but hard to picture and more people are hesitant to install extensions these days for security reasons.

I bet if you added a really short video that showed a couple operations being done, you could pick up a lot more mind share and interest, even if the video were only 15 seconds or so, like a quick screen capture.

Someone mentioned https://pagemagic.io, i’m not much familiar with them either, but they have a good example of this kind of video on their homepage.

They seem more productized, while this seems more is more of a project, but you get the same effect of reducing friction to get people taking a deeper look, by only taking a few minutes of your time.


This is an official Google Chrome Labs extension, so it is safe. The video preview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9V6B-tOIkc


Really like this - I can give this tool to design/product people (ixd, pm, ...) and they can easily manipulate our product, and send over screenshots of issues or improvements. Or present their ideas during a meeting.


Cool.

Minibug- as you get to the lower items on the menu, the explanatory help popup moves down as well, and so the help for the items nearer the bottom gets truncated.

https://pasteboard.co/HNi9lq0.png


Here's the video of the author presenting the extension at the Chrome Dev Summit keynote: https://youtu.be/zPHyxvPT0gg?t=1424


Reminds be a bit of Pagemagic.io


No screenshots for a visual editor?




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