Lets start with 1. rounded corners. They are everywhere. And to sizes I’ve never see before.
Scale of items on a page is massive.
I like a lot of this stuff but it must be something. Like 3. All sites full screen. Sometimes it seems beyond full screen.
It’s super subtle but even trackpad scrolling has a slightly different feel. Kinda better, almost more realtime scrolling than normal sites.
It reminds me of Wordpress in many ways backend-wise.
Speaking of Wordpress, I love me some off-canvas/modal items. paralaxing in crazy ways. Big adjustment in plugins letting me push the edges. When I see Bubble sites, I don’t feel that then same adjustments or plugins can be used or adjusted. All the bubble sites look just about the same. Not looks wise but tricked-out wise - like really no sophisticated movement.
Just a beginner in thinking if I should get to know this app more.
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Here are just a few of the Bubble sites I went to. Nice work. Not killer but nice.
Why am I thinking this way? I want to love Bubble!
if you want a bells and whistles web designer for a website then bubble isn’t the best option. there are much better alternatives out there that are built specifically for this use case.
bubbles main purpose is low code apps - internal and external
normally I’d build a website for the landers/traditional web dev side and then add a portal to access the bubble app side
keeping both separate has many advantages
if you want to sync some data from bubble to your website that is easy to do with bubbles api
hey, thanks Mitch. Would you say Wordpress is way more capable in cool build outs. Mosty front end glam. Or WP and Bubble about the same and Webflow blows them both away?
And one more. Would youn say FlutterFlow kills Bubble easily or they both are good tools?
The design is the design. How it is implemented is a separate thing. I’d guess that many Bubblers aren’t web designers so likely adapt a Bubble template or copy an existing Bubble site as an efficient solution to a good enough design. Hence a lot of samey designs.
I think other tools attract more design oriented users.
In theory, you can do pretty much anything (design wise) in Bubble (by using custom html/css).
If you know what you’re doing you can reproduce virtually any design/style in a bubble app (even complex things like Apple’s website, for example).
My guess as to why 90% of Bubble apps look the same (and they really do - I can usually spot an app built on Bubble just by how it looks) is this:
The vast majority of Bubble devs are NOT designers (and don’t want to be), so they have a tendency to just copy what they’ve seen other bubble devs do - so over the years a kind of unique ‘Bubble app’ style has evolved.
Also, although you can achieve any design/style you like with a bubble app, the bubble editor only has limited native design capabilities (limited flex-box options, for example, and limited styling options) - so without getting into custom css/html a lot of things are not possible to achieve natively (especially in comparison to some other low-code tools).
And given Bubble’s primary target audience, and key selling point (i.e. as a no-code tool for non-technical users), most bubble devs don’t have the time nor inclination to learn traditional web design methods (html/css), and so just stick to what bubble can do natively.
And one more. Would youn say FlutterFlow kills Bubble easily or they both are good tools?
Flutterflow is primarily for building native mobile apps (using flutter/dart) - is not great for building web-apps (I don’t have any personal experience using flutter flow - but this is widely understood, as it doesn’t use standard web technology),
Bubble is (at least currently) primarily for building web-apps (using standard web technology - albeit via the Bubble engine).
As the other friends said before. There are other tools to achieve a stunning design. But you can do some cool things in Bubble as well. Just gonna take a little while to built it.
Take a look at this template I made for gyms. Does it look like Bubble?
Nice view on a unique likelihood. Thank you, Lindsay.
**A new video editor needs to know - which app do I learn?
I’m sure you’ve approached a field that has either a couple solid decade-old leading apps (Adobe vs Affinity) or a couple solid years-old apps (i.e. Bubble vs, FlutterFlow) and the main concern is to NOT learn the app that you’ll feel was the wrong app to learn but knowing years later. Beyond painful.
Showing us noobs the craziest projects should give one a cheet-sheet of the app’s capabilities. From there, dialing down/simplifying be/fe isn’t an issue.
I think there’s gotta be people like me that can’t learn the app before deciding on Bubble or FF.
Maybe a way of getting the info needed is in the question (go fig). How about this: I’m looking for the most cool, bizarre, nearly broken, edge-cased & overly plugged in workflow forest of a site. Same in mobile is even better. I hope to understand Bubble’s reach and limitations in front or backend by viewing the extreme and letting my past experiences in creative apps lead the way.
> A-Duh. YouTube.
And beyond ‘yes’ regarding knee-slapping replies with the word YouTube. Right now I can’t tell you why that eLearning landscape has, in very particular ways, lost some of i’s steam. Without thought, I would say trust in the speaker, the multitude of compatibles, time-span and the lack of focus on this exact request: why this one instead of that one ( not the way you always see. In specifically, the way that addresses comparisons with categories like: This app is for people who love settings in high detail -or- this one is perfect for dumb dumbs who barely know what SQL is but need to know it quite well. (sorry, I went ranty
Well thanks EZ. I would say you escaped all the looks of Bubble except for one. Font size. But hold on. There might be an invisible Bubble personality that tricks me.
Like the font size. It might be Bubbly, but it’s better. Clearer, makes one minimize verbosity, and so on - and that secret Bubble trait is /scrolling/. I think it does it better due to smoothness/image delivery and also has a slightly better matched (Or more unmatched) drag to scroll- distance ratio.
If true, this scroll feel might be like body language for app. Know a lot about somebody before a word is said.
And when you say ‘standard components, are you saying 1. these are the ’ stock plugins/workflows’ in comparison to finding and weaving in outside plugins.
Or are you saying building your own plugins squashes my concerns.
Or or and you sayin’ like what was said before; you can do anything if you want to learn how-to code or at least copy.paste someone else’s code.
And your graceful comment of your designs makes me go, "aigHt! Let’:S See your Bubble-free sites.
I was reffering to the Components found in the editor on the top right.
To be fair though a lot of website builders have that stock look, not just Bubble. UI design is not that easy. I designed marketing collaterals for a living but I find UI/UX way more complex.
But websites built in Bubble also remind me of websites built using Bootstrap or React, it’s pretty easy to spot out quickly but if it’s functional, it works.
Don’t worry, 5 years from now AI will have built everything and everything will look generally the same, and then you’ll want your rounded corners back!
boOM on the nice links. These will help me our a lot. Thanks. and I’m sure others. That ending page/playground. I wonder why Bubble doesn’t show animations or at least and image of the plug ins so you don’t have to go to another page. Maybe like how WordPress does it modal style. Was this all your work, Mok?
yeah, it’s a multi-important project. I think it’s up to use designers to make sure we steer the tech world so well that devs that try to design would feel like me coding.
I know. Let’s make every phase perfectly words so much so it goes back into greek. Let’s neuroscience our tools. Let’s do what devs do best…make installing harder than designing, And each how to video will have smatterings of, :…,and there you go, all done. Simple as that!" ten times per video…I swear. ;;))
And I will check out on the top right in editor to make sure I know,.
lololol. rounded!!! shoot, we’ll be ditching our screens and yapping all around town.
Okay bcart, speaking about AI, did you hear the new good news? Chat is going to be so reliable, so bro, so My MOM!, so fuckble, so Dad helping me with my car, so my best friend, so everybody better than everyone you know. have or will meet or have loved as your favorite actor and cried to when your favorite song plays when seeing them live for the first time -that you will- Stop contacting your best friend, might go to your parents funeral, and turn your agent into your girlfriend minus the horrible laugh, the human skin and the passé human predictability. The best you’ll ever have is on it’s way.
And how does Bubble differentiate bewteensite and web bap and app? I mean they are just getting into ‘apps’ but what about the diff between sites and web apps
okay mr. adam, You have the most logical hindsight experience with high likelihood of reasons.
And I’ll be honest, your reply bummed me out the most. When I went to putan outline around an image, I love me some each corner has diff sizes in stroke width and radius and transparency. and that, like in Wordpress you often can go to the end of a plug ins setting,m hit the wall and continue with even more increase in size by not theslider but the text field making everything distort perfecti.
So the very first thing i Tried was more limited than WP. What I would do before code (cause I don’t) would be into look for a different image placing tool with the setting be what I need. Painful shopping.
And speaking about adding on a diff image plugin, you kinda made it out that it’s either Bubble as is or html/css. Maybe I’m wrong…aren’t there 10 different ways to place a shot? Bubble’s and nine other devs?
I’m glad you agreed with my initial finding. Those moments make my confidence know it’s first name will change someday to Areo Gance June. No, really. Its hard to tell if your comm style or edge pushing is a good thing.
Oh, interesting about FF’s non-standard webness.
Okay, Adam. DSo let’s say your client-base Wants mobile and sites only. Is Bubble going to be able to pull off mobile apps with RN? What do you think about their native mobile in beta now?
Yep, Bubble is not beautiful. It’s generic, boxy, and predictable – that is, when you’re looking at it from the front end perspective.
But that’s not its purpose. It’s a tool for making tools – functionality. Creating, modifying, fetching data is something Bubble excels at especially when you’re talking speed. If you want a beautiful landing page, you can easily go to Framer or Webflow and get a gorgeous template that looks and feels a million times better than something you could put together on Bubble.
But end users don’t really care about that, they care about functionality and what your app does. What good is a gorgeous lander if your app doesn’t do anything productive?
A lot of folks choose to build their landers using a tool that’s actually built for frontend like the ones I mentioned prior, then direct their CTAs to their Bubble backend.
