Hi! I discovered Penpot yesterday, I found it interesting and I am amazed after using it. Congratulations for the excellent work!
A small suggestion that I think is not yet developed: connectors, like the ones FigJam has, that are not included in Figma’s standard mode. I think Penpot has not yet developed this tool, and it is very useful to create user flows and diagrams quickly.
In Figma it is very uncomfortable to have to copy and paste the connectors from FigJam, when most of the time, at least in my opinion, it makes sense to have the user flows next to the designs, and to have the possibility to use the rest of the tools to create the diagrams.
I think many agree with me that it doesn’t make sense that in Figma this tool is exclusive to FigJam, and it would be great if Penpot would include connectors among the standard tools of your application.
Again my sincere congratulations to the whole team!
Diagrams are almost always essential for understanding flows.
Connectors are a fundamental tool to create diagrams.
Having designs and diagrams together in one place, a great advantage when it comes to understanding, discussing or reviewing designs by the team.
I would not leave it in the hands of a plugin.
In fact, in Figma there are many plugins to create these connectors outside FigJam (which indicates the need for designers to have this tool in Figma) but none of them efficiently solves the problem.
Having some kind of integrated connector tool in Penpot, would allow to create diagrams, taking advantage of the full potential of the application, such as using components for other diagram elements, etc.
We have a story created about this already that still needs definition work. It’s not in our list of inmediate priorities but it’s something that we will eventually get our hands dirty with If you’d like to have a look: Taiga
What is actually in our priorities list is to create a plugin system so stay in tune for that!
I think this is an essential and commonly needed feature.
Any sort of logic visualization where things have relations (so, pretty much any and all) would greatly benefit from connector arrows. Doing this currently with the Path tool is very cumbersome and inflexible.
Things like flow charts might not be Penpot’s primary intended use-case, but Penpot already got everything to nicely cover this use-case except of responsive connectors, so this one feature would likely open it up to a significant number of new applications and users. It’s always great when you need one less tool to do the job.
@Ester the lack of this feature prevents a huge inflow of potential PenPot users to Migrate. How can we facilitate the implementation of this basic feature required in all sorts of technology drawing? The plugin system currently as it stands might be useable for some but all the plugins in there don’t add the value of connecting elements properly.
Other software like Lucidchart, Figma etc. do this very well, companies which do more than just create Wireframes will stick on their original tools because the “normal” user-base can’t be migrated.
In the OSS context, it would be important to use this for architecture, sequence diagramming, flow-charting, data-flows etc… so there is a huge userbase which is waiting for this support.
If you’d like to have a look: 