As a web designer that is currently creating a website using almost no pro-made elements this one was a little frustrating to figure out! Having the ability to make a blank repeater right from this menu instead of having to sort through the pre-made elements in the layout section would be very helpful. The same goes for lightboxes.
Hi Hank,
We appreciate your suggestions and feedback. We are working on some improvements and refinements that will definitely provide a better and faster experience to build layouts. For example: we’re working on adding blank repeaters to the Quick Add panel.
Lightboxes are also a great suggestion. I will pass this on to the rest of the team. If you have any other ideas what you would like to see in the panel, please let us know!
Glad to hear this is getting addressed! I may be missing some others that should be included (I know videos are handled on a per-website embed basis but they count here too!) but expanding on these: Every independent element for designing content within the editor should be available in the quick add menu.
But hey, why stop there?
The “Quick Add” menu currently acts the way the tools panel does in Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator, the node shelf in Nuke, or the toolbar in Figma. If I were making this software (which I’m not so hey, this is one guy’s opinion) I would take this one step further by separating these from the other template elements and treating them the same established way that tools are traditionally treated in design software, by showing them to the user at all times. This means that users who aren’t exclusively using your pre-built elements save a click every time from closing a menu and opening up the “add elements” panel which currently also takes up a lot of visual real-estate.
Replacing this menu that takes up 27% of the screen space to display 15 tool icons would be the way to go in my opinion. It does a good job at displaying template elements but the vast majority of the time I don’t use or need those and it really slows me down.