What's New

New updates and improvements to Make the Dot.
Color Translation from HEX to Pantone

Highlight your key concept by resizing your image/color/text

This week we have introduced the ability to resize any image, text or color on your board - helping you emphasize your key concept easily. On top of that, we are now helping you translate hex / RGB colors to the closest Pantone colors and you can edit any of your colors with ease.

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Resizable cards to highlight key themes
Resizable cards to highlight key themes

Color translation between HEX and Pantone

Only have an HEX or RGB code on hand but need to communicate using the Pantone code? Now we automatically help you translate it to the closest Pantone hues for you to choose from.

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Colour translation

Edit color with ease

Clicking on the pencil icon on the color card now allows you to adjust your color hues.

Edit colour hues easily
Edit your colour hues easily

Take a peek into what's on your board πŸ‘€

When you go to your Home Dashboard, you can now see a small preview of what's been added on each board. When you hover on it, you can also see details about which owner it belongs to and the last update date and time, making it easier to manage multiple boards.

Our new homepage, with hover preview of dates and timestamps
Sneak peak

Other small improvements...

  • Improvements in performance and image upload speed
  • Cards wouldn't overlap as you adjust the browser size

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Also, learn how to incorporate this feature in your moodboard with our guide on how to create fashion moodboard.

Multiple Board Creation

Create unlimited fashion moodboards

This week we have introduced the ability to create as many boards as you'd like in Make the Dot! πŸŽ‰ Β (and obviously to remove them in case you no longer want them in your home dashboard). On top of that, we have also improved the way your collaborators can discover your comments.

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Create a new fashion moodboard from homescreen
Unlimited fashion moodboard alert

Made a mistake? No problem, just delete the moodboard

Easy to delete boards
Easy to delete

Auto turn on Show Comments when you leave your first comment

As soon as you leave your first comment, we'll turn on Show Comments to let you know which cards have comments at a glance - this way when you invite a Reviewer to your board to collaborate, there's less of a learning curve for them to leave you feedback!


Other small improvements...

  • At any time, when you complete the tutorial from the demo board, we will bring you either to a new board (if you've never created one) or to the latest board that you were working on #LearnAtYourOwnTime
  • Long comments are no longer overlapping with the comment thread behind
  • You can now completely remove all the descriptions on your images - just a small fix so that you can get rid of the "Screen Shot 2021-10-27 at 2.14.18 PM.png" as a description

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UX Improvements

Edit your board while seeing which cards have comments

This week we have made it more flexible for you to edit your board while checking comments. We have also improved the overall usability on tablets, helping you do your research on the go.

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No more switching back and forth between moodboarding and checking comments - simply switch on Show Comments on the Toolbar and you can do both at the same time!

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Show comments

Select cards easily on iPads

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Easy select

After switching on Select Mode, you can select a card by simply tapping on it. Now it's easier to select and then group cards on iPads.

Edit image description and color name

When you are on the Details Panel of an image, you can now click this little edit icon next to Image Description to add your own notes.

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Image description

Similarly, you can edit the name of a color through the Details Panel​. Try giving it a more colorful name!

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Color name

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#BugFixes

  • The comment count on the card is now updated immediately after any comment is added
  • The detail panel will now open on one click when filter is applied
  • Image details is now shown in the details panel for newly uploaded images
  • Comments would not get hidden behind the input field when there are 6 or more comments
  • The page will now auto-scroll to just the beginning of the Ungrouped Cards section instead of all the way to the top when you upload new images.
  • "Drop your files" message will now disappear as soon as you start creating content in your board.

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Card Details Panel with Comments

Card Details Panel with Comments

This week we have improved how you can easily see more context such as photo captions and color codes. We have also made improvements on the overall experience of the app based on our observations during the onboarding call with you.

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Comment side panel
Comment side panel

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Now when you click on any card on the board, we'll bring up a side panel with the details of the card and the comment thread.

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More obvious way to edit text

We added a little edit icon on the text card. Now it's easier to edit text across desktops and iPads.

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More ways to edit

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Also improved..

  • We noticed quite a few of you handle pretty large files so we have doubled the file size limit for upload
  • Smoother drag and drop arrangement of cards on the board
  • ​Smoother process to invite reviewers to your board
  • Added onboarding video to guide you through creating your first board in case you're not sure where to start

#BugFixes

  • Tall images would not overlap on the board anymore
  • The filter is now reflecting the current state on the board after reordering groups when filter is applied
  • Make the Dot's logo on the toolbar is now correctly redirecting to the Home Dashboard

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Find Unread Comments

UX Improvements

This week we improved the way you work with your fashion collaborators on your fashion moodboard by introducing a new email notification and you can also easily see which board has unread comments on the homepage. This way you'll never miss a beat when collaborating! Additionally, we're shipping:

  • Keyword shortcuts for styling text
  • Better support across different desktop and tablet screen sizes
  • A series of bug fixes to make sure your images cards will display nicely on the board
  • Usability improvements

New comments alerts

Every day at 9 am UTC, an email notification would be sent out to you if (and only if) other users who you have invited on your board have left you unread comments. We will remind you to go in and check. This reminder is only served once. We won't spam you. Β 

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New comments

Find unread comments

Now when you go into your home dashboard, you will see a red dot on every board that has unread comments. Once you're on the fashion moodboard, the same red dot would appear on the comment icon on the toolbar as well as every card with unread comments.

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Unread comments

Support for more screen sizes

By default, we have been supporting screen sizes of 1440px and 1920px or above resolutions. As we observed that some of you use 13" MacBooks with slightly smaller screen sizes, we have now improved the smaller screen sizes with 1028px and 1280px resolution. We want to ensure that your creative ideas can always be presented in the best light possible.

This applies to every aspect of the board: displaying images you upload, the text tool, and the color picker.

Auto-scroll to your activity on the board

The page will now auto-scroll to the relevant part of the board depending on your activity. For instance, when a new image card or color card is added, the page will scroll to the beginning of the Ungrouped Cards section. When you add a card to a new group, we will auto-scroll to that new group.

This way, it takes less mental effort for you to follow what is happening on the page.

autoscrolling on make the dot
Autoscrolling for new comments

Keyboard shortcuts for text styling

Now you can hold down Command (for Mac) or Ctrl (for Windows) and

  • B to turn highlighted text bold
  • I to turn highlighted text italic
  • U to turn highlighted text underline

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Keyboard shortcuts

#BugFixes

  • "Invite" button is now enabled when adding the second email - previously you could only invite one reviewer before getting stuck. This is now fixed.
  • Card count now corrected when uploading multiple images
  • Cards are no longer overlapping on iPad and when the screen width is smaller than 1440px
  • After changing the Group name, it is now reflected in the Filter when you try to filter a group

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