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Aloke Pillai
Toronto Pastel Joined about 10 years ago via an invitation from Stu G.
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- Marker - Open source hand-drawn illustrations (usepastel.com)
- How Nathan Elly built a $2M/year agency in 6 years (blog.usepastel.com)
- Becoming an investor using agency revenues with Jay Vasantharajah (blog.usepastel.com)
- Rethinking Zoom's UX design (blog.usepastel.com)
- 3D Design for the web - A chat with Pitch.com (blog.usepastel.com)
- A creative design portfolio site that got 400k visitors (blog.usepastel.com)
- 50 free handwriting fonts (blog.usepastel.com)
- 33 Sites with Beautiful Open Source Icon Sets (blog.usepastel.com)
- 20 year timelapse of Amazon.com (1999-2019) (youtube.com)
- Pastel 2.0 (usepastel.com)
Posted to Pastel 2.0, in reply to Hüseyin Yilmaz , Mar 26, 2019 Posted to Pastel 2.0, in reply to Yasen Dimov , Mar 26, 2019 Hey Yasen. Co-founder here. It's $25/mo for single users, $99/mo for small teams. We just added the ability to comment on images, so if you don't use the prototyping features on Invision and just the commenting, Pastel replaces Invision for you and consolidates feedback on both static designs and interactive websites. Did you get a chance to see the product in action?
Posted to Pastel 2.0, Mar 26, 2019 Hah, I see it. Looks like a music note.
Posted to How do you share UI issues and bugs with your developer or development team?, Jan 21, 2019 We are working on this at usepastel.com - key idea is that real-time visual feedback needs to be on the actual UI in the browser
Posted to Black Friday deals for designer tools., Nov 21, 2018 Happy #000 Friday, community.
Pastel is offering 50% for 3 months. Use code: DN000FRI
Posted to Feedback request for my portfolio, in reply to Kevin Eugene , Oct 22, 2018 No worries! Good luck!
Posted to Feedback request for my portfolio, Oct 22, 2018 Hi Kevin! Really like the case study view with the links on the top. Shared some comments. Have a look: http://usepastel.com/link/7mp7/
Posted to We built a calculator to find your ideal & break-even hourly rate, in reply to Sacha Greif , Aug 28, 2018 No, I don't think so, but this exercise was to provide a framework to create a baseline that includes your costs and expected take home, which I think is a helpful to come up with initial rates. I definitely agree that pricing iteration is how you grow in your freelance/consulting career.
Posted to We built a calculator to find your ideal & break-even hourly rate, in reply to Nacho Toledo , Aug 28, 2018 Oh really? What browser?
Posted to We built a calculator to find your ideal & break-even hourly rate, Aug 28, 2018 Wouldn't that be depressing :( lol
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Great question, Hüseyin.
The biggest difference of Pastel is that you can type in a URL and click and comment on the actual website and actual UI elements without installing anything. In addition to that you can also upload PNG and JPG files. Pastel is built to be a feedback first product and the nice thing about that is having one place for both design and development feedback. I found that clients and developers don't care about which tool they use as long as its in one place and easily actionable. You can also take the feedback and export to Asana, Trello, Jira and more.