4 years ago from Mark Horgan, UI developer
I would like to share a Sketch plugin I've made that adds breakpoints to artboards. Instead of having separate artboards for desktop and mobile, you can have one artboard with multiple breakpoints. As well as horizontal breakpoints for web design it has vertical breakpoints which are useful for mobile apps in landscape orientation.
You can download the plugin here
Why are you asking for email addresses to download the plugin? Pretty sure it goes against GDPR: "Avoid making consent a precondition of a service."
You know that you can have a fake email to download all these things that ask for your email? It's that simple mate. The guy is not even trying to sell it, don't know why the drama.
That's really not the point. I know I could do that, disposable email addresses have been around for ages, more just the point that GDPR is there for a reason.
It's there because it's the law, not because it makes sense.
The guy is giving away for free something he built and that's potentially useful, who gives a toss what the bloody GDPR says?!
See above Jeremy
alright, so this is very simple. I will not pay with my data, but I will pay money for this.
Secretly uses spam mail adress... :-P
Unfortunately the crushing reality of the internet is that you are part of a tiny tiny minority. I wish this wasn’t the case but it’s true.
At a company I used to work for they ran an experiment with an ebook they published. They were wondering how much charging 10 cents (USD) vs offering something for free would affect conversion.
Here was the result:
Free: 126,000ish downloads. 10 cents: 473 downloads (I think, it was under 500 for sure).
If given the choice, people will overwhelmingly pick giving out their email address (which is not the same as giving out “your data” btw), rather than paying an amount of money so small they wouldn’t bend over on the street for it.
If I was this guy, I’d just block all European users over the GDPR concern and replace my site with 17,000 cookie pop ups for those users as retailiation for forcing the entire world to waste their lives closing pop ups all day.
well, I am one of those users from Europe.
So you say giving out your private or business related mail address is not the same as giving out privacy data?
Interesting, please explain.
Your email address contains no information about you (unless you choose to make it that way, ie. mynameandbankaccountinfo@imdumb.com)...it’s simply a method to contact you...that you can ignore or block or unsubscribe from.
“I won’t pay for this with my data but I will with my money” makes no sense in the context of an email address
How do you think you’re going to pay for this service without giving out your email!? Most people like receipts and confirmation of payment.
This sketch plugin is not the Facebook boogieman. He’s just asking for an email, which we’ve all been happy giving out since 1995. The privacy posturing makes no sense here.
Changing the component grid is nice, can it also change type styles based on the breakpoint? Changing all the type styles and double checking them all has been a major pain point for me in the past.
Yes, it can change text styles in different breakpoints. There's more information on what properties it saves here.
There are a lot of comments here about the inconsiderate sign up process to download this plugin.
Can anyone say if the plugin is worth moving past that dark pattern for?
I think the plugin is great. It's definitely worth trying out especially, if you design responsive solutions every day. I don't see anything wrong how Protowire share their plugin, seems a reasonable trade to me, if people are so scared of sharing their contact, then there's a plenty of other workarounds how to trick a system...
Ta!
I don't think it's being scared so much as being offended. The expectation of personal info and spam in exhchange for products is quickly dissipating as a societal norm. The long term price has been demonstrated and more & more people are considering it unreasonable.
Ooooh, 'dark pattern'. Scary. The guy is asking for your email address if you think what he built is useful, not your first born. Get a grip.
Wow looks great, will give it a try
Looks really nice. This is the thing Sketch needed.
Nothing about the idea, it is a cool plugin. But think about that:
You use the plugin for productive layouts in a agile environment (Scrum, Agile Dev, etc.). You create your breakpoint layouts for your core product which more that 20+ people (Designer, Dev, Stakehodler,..) working on. So sketch updates, plugins does not work anymore, no updates, work of months broken because plugin does not work anymore.
I got these problems one time with anima. Since them i only use productive plugins not altering layout plugins. I only rely on sketch functionallities in such case.
Just as a note for this one also.
I wish that Bohemian would "buy" such plugins and implement them in their app and be a part of their route.
What do you think?
Some of them Definitely… Like they should have with the now discontinued Paddy :( because it was way better than Anima Autolayout
But the thing is that (I think) they try to keep the Software as light and fast as possible by keeping it simple. If someone want to build a plugin, everything is in place to build great ones. That way, everyone can get "their own" version of Sketch for their needs.
Of course everyone should use what they want. Just wanted to have my five cent on these kind of plugins which can be a bad thing when you working in a bigger than solo freelance environment.
Indeed. It can become a serious problem when someone needs to open and edit your file in some specific cases. Ex.: opening a file that uses Anima Autolayout without the plugin, editing it then sending it back = nightmare
So plugin writers would be submitting their plugins to maybe be bought by a monopsony and otherwise never be used by anyone?
That sounds much worse than having the self discipline to be aware that depending on a plugin comes with the risk of it not being supported for infinity.
Seriously?
Read the complete text! ===>>> You can unsubscribe at any time....
Like any other (legal) newsletter. If you can unsubscribe at any time, why is it required at all? I'd prefer to pay some money than having my e-mail on this list. (And you should position required checkboxes above the submit button, when possible.)
It's just bad user experience. "I'll require you to sign up for the newsletter so you can wait for the first e-mail to unsubscribe"
It's a great idea and I know that OP spent a lot of time developing it and I appreciate that. But it doesn't take away the fact that requiring users to subscribe to his newsletter sucks, specially in 2019.
I like the looks of the plugin. It's def something I've been looking for, specifically with the clickable breakpoints so you don't always have to drag to scale the artboard.
Can't wait to try it.
After crash all my plugins was disabled… pointbreak is not running anymore… hmmm
Restart Sketch to re-enable all your plugins, including Pointbreak.
You are using Abstract isn't it?
I'm using abstract.
Might be the Abstract Plugin that makes everything going under. Otherwise, might be Abstract itself when it "updates" sketch files to a newer version. Weirdly enough, the bug does not happen when you update the files locally.
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