What's new in Makeswift
Updated on November 30, 2020
New features
We've been designing version 2 of Makeswift with some of our early customers for a few months now, and are excited to release the first installment of these updates. Over the next few months we will be streamlining the user experience to make building and managing your site unbelievably efficient.
If you'd like to get involved early in the design process, please join our Discord. Many of these ideas have come straight from the community. Now on to the updates!
New toolbar
Previously, adding new components and layouts wasn't possible with an element selected. To fix this, we've moved all of our components and layouts into their own dedicated toolbar on the left side of the builder. Our most common components are now always front and center (as well as hotkey enabled), with other components and layouts easily accessible on hover. Anyone who has used Adobe design tools or Figma should feel right at home.
Combining build and content mode
Switching between build and content mode wasn't very intuitive for our users. We removed the concept of different modes while building a page, making it easier and less clunky to edit text. Double-click any text element to edit, and click once outside the text to return to building your page. You can now also easily distinguish between different text elements while editing text when moving your cursor around.
You'll now always see typography and text styles available in the sidebar when selecting a text element, making it much easier to style an entire text element without needing to double click.
Other changes
- Teammate avatars have been moved to the bottom left
- The page canvas has been redesigned to more accurately preview how a page looks in the browser
- The device mode picker has been expanded to display all device icons
- The space around the page has been increased, making deselecting elements easier
- All page actions have been added next to the publish button, including viewing a live page after it's been published
- Elements are automatically selected on drop
- Improved vertical leeway when dragging an element left and right to align
- Removed heading block from new text elements
- When dragging an element, you will no longer see the drop-zone label for unnamed boxes
Previous updates
Oct 13, 2020
When working on a product for so long, you sometimes don't realize that the most basic of interactions need a second look. In our case, it was som…
Sep 29, 2020
Over the last couple of weeks, we've made updates to Makeswift that improve the speed and performance of the page builder.
Sep 14, 2020
As we've been observing new users learn Makeswift, we've realized that alternating the spacing handles as you move your mouse in and out of…
Aug 26, 2020
We've added enhancements to live collaboration that will now show you exactly which elements a teammate is hovering over, as well as what…
Aug 10, 2020
Makeswift is now listed with a dedicated page in Zapier's App Directory. All Zapier users can discover the Makeswift app and start creating Zap…
Jun 11, 2020
Makeswift is built for teams. Now you and your teammates can work on the same page simultaneously. As you make edits to a page, your team…
May 5, 2020
Previously, it was difficult to make sure all boxes were equal in height when creating multi-column rows. With nothing more than your naked eye…
Apr 21, 2020
When creating a new page, you'll now be able to select from a library of beautiful, responsive page templates. Each template was built inside…
Apr 2, 2020
While using our product over the last many months, we've realized that it takes too many clicks to navigate around Makeswift. For example, it took…
Mar 25, 2020
While in content mode, you can now edit existing text links instead of having to unlink them first. You can also add adjacent text to an existing link…
Mar 12, 2020
You can now view and download invoices from your Makeswift account. We also added a section in billing overview allowing you to add tax IDs to your…
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