Neat Effects, No Code Required. Bounce, swivel, spin. Today’s interface design is all about making things move. But the tools we use to create those interactions haven’t kept pace with our smart, intuitive enough for a 3-year-old devices. As an interaction designer with a software engineering background, I usually bring ideas to life through coding. For those who don’t code, there are tools that offer a less technical approach, such as Quartz Composer (a nearly decade old visual programming language) and Origami (a new tool built by Facebook that streamlines Quartz Composer).
The effort to make interaction design accessible to a broader set of people is a worthy cause, and crucial to the fast-paced live prototyping process at IDEO. Taken together, Quartz Composer and Origami offer a set of basic interface building blocks called patches. I started by creating a set of reusable patches that address common interaction patterns that are arduous to build from scratch. Want to try it out? I. The Avocado Patches The Keyboard 1. Ideo Releases A New Photoshop For Interaction Design.
A few months ago, Facebook released a bit of open-source code called Origami, which lets designers create and test user interfaces without any coding. Now, Ideo has released a free sequel. The design firm calls it Avocado, and it builds on the functionality of Origami, creating an even faster UX prototyping tool. "We wanted to build Avocado as something for our designers to be useful for them, and then put it out there to see if it’s helpful to others," explains Design Director Chris Nyffeler. If Origami provides the Lego blocks for a prototyping interface, Avocado provides fully formed Lego kits.
“We don’t want to reinvent components from scratch every time,” explains Avocado creator, and Ideo interaction designer and software engineer Marco Triverio. For Ideo, Avocado was a natural extension of its rapid prototyping process. Origami sits on top of Apple’s age-old Quartz Composer software, and Avocado sits on top of Origami. The resulting creation isn't a true app. Download Avocado here. Home of free code snippets for Bootstrap | Bootsnipp.com. Untitled Document: Lucidchart. Resources.