Creating Your First Prototype with Framer No longer can your product just be usable and look good. Beautiful, subtle movement enhances the user experience and makes products more engaging, dynamic, and memorable. Paul Stamatiou, designer for Twitter, recently wrote that motion design is now a required skill for designers. With so many prototyping tools popping up, I wanted to give Framer Studio a shot. To get started, I downloaded the free 14 day trial version and went over the learn section on their website, which contained basics around creating animations, properties, states, events, and more. When you first open the app, you are presented with a code editor on the left pane and an instant preview of the code on the right. I personally learn best looking at other code and then modifying it to figure out what is going on. Once I had a basic idea of how everything worked, it was time to create my first prototype. A great feature of Framer is the ability to import designs from Sketch or Photoshop documents. Should you use it?
Web Starter Kit Download Web Starter Kit (beta) What is Web Starter Kit? Web Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development. Tools for building a great experience across many devices and performance oriented. Helping you to stay productive following the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals. A solid starting point for both professionals and newcomers to the industry. Features Quickstart Download the kit or clone the repository and build on what is included in the app directory. There are two HTML starting points, from which you can choose: index.html - the default starting point, containing Material Design layout.basic.html - no layout, but still includes our minimal mobile best-practices Be sure to look over the installation docs to verify your environment is prepared to run WSK. Web Performance Web Starter Kit strives to give you a high performance starting point out of the box. Browser Support ChromeEdgeFirefoxSafariOperaInternet Explorer 9+ Troubleshooting Docs and Recipes
Wirefy | The Responsive Wireframe Framework Comparatifs de 4 outils de prototypage UX-DESIGN Voilà pourquoi j’ai eu pour mission de trouver un outil de prototypage parfait qui répond aux besoins de tous les concepteurs des produits de mon entreprise. Les critères les plus importants sont: convivialité, partage facile, courbe d’apprentissage rapide, mobile et hautement intéractif.Les outils que je vais vous présenter sont ceux que j’ai trouvé le plus souvent discutés sur les groupes UX en ligne et ceux que de nombreux experts pensaient les mieux adaptés à nos besoins. Types d’outils de prototypage Après de longues recherches, j’ai divisé les outils de prototypage en trois catégories : page-based, layer-based, and coding-based. Les outils de prototypage ‘Page-Based’ Flinto Après mûre réflexion, nous avons décidé d’utiliser Flinto place d’autres outils dans cette catégorie. Whenever we make changes to a mock in @Dropbox, it will be automatically updated in @flinto as well Tout comme les autres outils de cette catégorie, Flinto ne propose pas d’animation fluide sur une page. Invision
Single Page guru, when you need a simple good looking automatically generated single page site template A new way to create animated prototypes While Photoshop and Sketch enable you to prepare static mockups of websites and apps, those tools don’t help you go to the next step of design – interactive prototypes. Well until now, that is. Here at Creative Bloq we're big fans of UXPin, an app for animated prototyping with no coding knowledge required. "Nothing out there right now lets you do this," says UXPin's Jerry Cao. "We learned that this is a huge productivity hurdle during user interviews with Google, Uber, Apple, Etsy, Intuit to name a few. Subscription offer "We developed our solution so that design teams save hours on redrawing designs. You can learn more about the new feature here. Words: Tom May Tom May is associate editor at Creative Bloq.