# Tools We'd Like to See

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/tools-wed-like-to-see/314>\
**Category:** Design Lounge\
**Created:** [October 15, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/tools-wed-like-to-see/314 "2017-10-15T14:47:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![simonv3](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/simonv3/32/15_2.png) [@simonv3](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/simonv3)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/tools-wed-like-to-see/314/1 "2017-10-15T14:47:52Z")

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I’m moving the conversation from the Github issue here: [https://github.com/opensourcedesign/resources/issues/20](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/resources/issues/20)

@simonv3:

> Inspired by the things that @jdittrich has been talking about here, here might be a good place to list web tools we’d like to see good open source alternatives for.
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> An open source style pinterest, or something similar to create a mood board and gather design inspirations - [pinry](https://github.com/pinry/pinry/) is an option, but is starting to look pretty stale and insecure.  
> A/B Testing  
> A pencil alternative. An UX tool that has user experience designers in mind to create low-fi wireframes and user interactions. I love this as an abstract reference on how a non design-intrusive UX could be: [https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder](https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder) (proposed by @Xaviju)  
> An open source tool for design annotations and exchange, like Zurb Notable (proposed by @jdittrich)
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> If you add something, I’ll add it to the list. If you know of something, I’ll edit the list (and also the actual readme.md).

@Xaviju

> I would love to see:
> 
> A pencil alternative. An UX tool that has user experience designers in mind to create low-fi wireframes and user interactions. I love this as an abstract reference on how a non design-intrusive UX could be: [https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder](https://github.com/ipselon/react-ui-builder)

@jdittrich

> An open source tool for design annotations and exchange, like [Zurb Notable](http://zurb.com/notable/features/annotations)

@/nicknikolov

> [GitHub - vorg/kollektor: Node app for image collection and mood boards (like Pinterest)](https://github.com/vorg/kollektor) is a pretty good Pinterest alternative. It’s maintained and used by the author so don’t be afraid to try and spam him with issues, its a nice project that could use more activity 🙂

@RichardLitt

> I would like to see a FLOSS resource for generating images of database schemas which are platform agnostic, for planning a database before creating it. (solution: [https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/](https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/))

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**Author:** ![mray](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/mray/32/56_2.png) [@mray](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/mray)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/tools-wed-like-to-see/314/2 "2018-10-11T21:07:14Z")

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I’m not aware how instagram and pinterest work, but [https://pixelfed.org/](https://pixelfed.org/) will join the fediverse very soon now. Maybe there is something to it in terms of gathering moodboards…