Placeholders – Lockable Design
Ensure staying on brand and simplify the design process by defining placeholders and design constraints.
Use placeholders to create adaptable templates that can be easily personalized, while ensuring a unified layout and staying on brand.
What is a placeholder?
Placeholders are dynamic elements of a design that can be modified in a specific, predefined way. Placeholders can be chosen and defined in a creator role and adapted by users interacting with a template.
Assigning placeholders
Each element of the design can serve as a placeholder and each placeholder can behave in a different way. A creator can choose how an adopter can interact with every element, allowing changes ranging from basic to advanced.
Choosing constraints
In a creator mode, placeholders can give permission to:
- Replace content - giving users permission to change visual or written content
- Arrange - including separate permissions for: move, scale, rotate, and flip
- Style - allowing visual adjustments like contrast, brightness, or filters
- Delete - element can be removed
- Duplicate - element can be duplicated
Benefits of placeholders
Creating smart templates with the use of placeholders and custom constraints can jump-start the creative process and make design creation easy and accessible to anyone. It can also ensure staying on brand by allowing customization of only specific parts of the design - especially useful for creative agencies or franchises.
Adapting placeholders
As an adopter interacting with a template, the design process is straightforward, without the possibility to perform actions and edits that weren’t allowed by a creator.
