Designer pro test-drives Webflow in Vivaldi

Our professional on this video is Bernt, a 32-year-old graphic designer based mostly in Stavanger, who has additionally lived in Texas, London and Copenhagen. (Chances are you’ll acknowledge him from our video on Designer Methods for Figma.) He works principally in digital and graphic design.

What’s your relationship with browsers?

He has an “open-relationship” philosophy, relating to browsers. Since a key a part of his job is testing plenty of his web site designs, he has used nearly each browser at one time or one other. Extra not too long ago he has principally been utilizing Chrome, Courageous and Safari, but in addition has Safari, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi on board his pc.

Which qualities do you search for in a browser?

• Clear interface? On the prime of Bernt’s record is a clutter-free, clear interface, so he can give attention to his designs. 
• Velocity ? He wants a fast browser that doesn’t decelerate his testing of SEG animations, movies and web sites. 
• Password Supervisor ? The browser have to be straightforward to hook up with all his varied accounts, with a safe password supervisor to retailer his log-in particulars.

Primarily based on his necessities, it seems like Vivaldi can be an excellent match for him!

How properly does Webflow work in Vivaldi?

Bernt begins his walkthrough of the brand new web site he’s designing for his firm utilizing Webflow and Vivaldi. The web site is designed to be a showcase, or on-line portfolio, of their intensive expertise with branding, identities and logos. A lot of the content material is in place, however the design nonetheless wants some tweaks.

After a fast have a look at his notes in Notion, he clicks into his tag stack, which incorporates tabs for his new web site design and Webflow. He mentions that, as somebody who often has 1,000,000 tabs open, tab stacking is certainly one of his favourite options in Vivaldi. 

As he begins scrolling by way of his web site, he provides that a difficulty he encounters in plenty of browsers is that, when you’ve gotten animations on a web site, there will likely be lag when scrolling. What he finds nice about Vivaldi is that it supplies a persistently easy expertise whereas scrolling.

He pauses to work on a difficulty he’s discovered with floating textual content on his web site. The very first thing he does is to tile the tab stack, in order that his tabs are facet by facet. With this arrange, he is ready to transfer forwards and backwards between the 2 tabs rapidly and simply, to isolate and repair the issue with the renegade heading. He provides that he has two variations, one for Microsoft Edge and one “for all the nice browsers”. ?

Since Vivaldi offers him a stay preview, he can double-check every part earlier than publishing. After a fast refresh, he confirms the animation & heading are behaving extra as anticipated within the stay variations – simply wants to regulate the timing, which he does rapidly, switching forwards and backwards between Webflow and his stay preview. With somewhat extra tweaking with padding and top to get the white house steadiness simply as he likes it, he’s happy with the repair. 

At this level, he cheerfully reassures the viewer that, whereas there may be loads extra to work on, he gained’t be doing this for the video, as it might take all day. However he does take time to name out the tremendous easy scrolling and fast web page loading on Vivaldi.

Bernt’s verdict? Utilizing Webflow with Vivaldi has labored very well. ?

We aren’t too shocked, since Vivaldi is good for individuals who do plenty of their work in an online browser. With Vivaldi’s ever-expanding catalog of options, you’ll be able to create a custom-made browser expertise that works easily along with your particular workflow and elegance, permitting you to spice up productiveness. And it’s also possible to make it your individual, with themes, menu customization, and far far more.

Last ideas?

Requested if he has something extra so as to add about his expertise utilizing Vivaldi right now. He shares his ideas:            

“Like I stated there’s a bunch of browsers and I’ve tried all of them, and it type of looks as if there’s fairly small variations in them. However Vivaldi is unquestionably rather a lot faster than the opposite browsers that I’ve used these days. And there’s undoubtedly a flexibility within the UI, the best way that I can type the browser as I need, actually makes my minimalist self comfortable. I can cover every part and make every part white, which is what I like – proper now, a minimum of …”

And, with that, we go away Bernt. One other happy Vivaldi person. ?

And we additionally go away our Professional Suggestions collection – proper now, a minimum of, as Bernt would say. For those who haven’t but seen the opposite movies on this collection you’ll want to test them out. Along with Webflow and Figma with Bernt, we adopted different customers demonstrating how properly productiveness instruments and Discord work with Vivaldi, in addition to following a Safari person making an attempt Vivaldi for the primary time.

We’ve loved placing the Vivaldi browser by way of its paces with varied apps, so you’ll be able to see first hand how versatile, fast and highly effective it may be in numerous eventualities. Are there some other net apps you want to see us take a look at drive with Vivaldi? Tell us within the feedback under.?