Glide’s positioning is #nodesign: builders need not worry about design maintenance nor staying up to date, Glide will take care of it because Glide will actually do it, do it better and because builders have better things to do in life. I wholeheartedly support this. It makes zero sense that when design trends evolve and the rounded corners of a button go from 3px to 8 (random example), millions of UI teams around the world get busy like busy bees. It’s plain silly. And everyone goes and fiddles around with their little bits of code and push and merge and do their quality assurance and yada yada yada. It’s ludicrous. I’m all for the CSS Committee of the Universe to push changes to all buttons in the Universe so everyone can get on with their lives. Give us two or three choices, and basta.
Allowing businesses to tweak the UI via CSS (or otherwise) for corporate branding purposes, yes. Allowing designers to tweak margins and positions and styles that’ll be outdated in 12 months anyway, absolutely no.
I respectfully disagree for me its all or nothing, always been like this , Amiga vs Atari St ( with friends both )…but basically its the same for a top notch front end UI UX goes hand by hand with backend functionalities .Just good UI ?Same, i want a good backend not to forget how great could be AND WAS Glide with Css for learning both worlds ,you said builders have better things, well i think some think like this and some think even these are better things, its your experience and i’m fine with that but i prefer to have frontend and backend and css would be a great drive to make starter users to scale up , and frankly i know that there also other reasons behind that is why friendship is so important , if bread is made of crumbles , shoulders together lift better,That being said this is the reality also if CSS is very standard in the world out there.
I generally agree with you. On the other hand, for a company, the brand image is very important as well as the user experience. That’s why CSS is super important for a business and I can understand that it’s expensive for small businesses to have to subscribe to a business subscription to unlock CSS functionality. In my opinion, this option should be available in pro. It’s not like we’re talking about Big Table or Big Query.
You are currently satisfied with the design that Glide offers, and it is a certainty that it is super beautiful. But according to user needs it is not necessarily the most user friendly, especially in the mobile version.
I put you a very simple example below that I was able to create thanks to CSS, so yes it may be small details but it is with the small details that we make big thing.
And yes I pay for a Business plan, but yes also I think it should be accessible to small freelancers (pro) who would like their applications to look more like their graphic charters.
FYI…as a Classic developer migrating to the new Apps dev - this choice was VERY confusing. It implied that I was developing/selecting one or the other style - not both.
And it is not consistent. When I select “New App” from the dashboard I get this option (Large Screen or Mobile) but when I Duplicate or New App from Data from an existing App I do not get this choice.
Either give users the same choice everywhere a New App can be created or don’t - not confuse them with seemingly different paths to New App.
