FLINTO OR ATOMIC FULL

They’ve introduced more functionality and, in my opinion, if you are familiar with front end (html, css, js), you may prefer the spartan interface. If you are not scared of Coffee Script it is a powerful tool. Half code, half visual, Framer sits in the middle. If you want to do an animated loader or simulate a few custom animations and don’t want to spend days learning After Effects these tools are the way to go. Principle and Flinto play it simple and I like that. No need for complex API or Json integrations. A simple connection to a Google Sheet and you’re all set. an e-commerce platform, and want to use Google Analytics or a custom html component, it gives you the freedom to do that and more without having to code.Īlthough the standalone application is dearly missed, Atomic.io still mastered the implementation of dynamic data. So why am I putting it in this evaluation? If you are working on a B2C responsive website, e.g. Webflow is a content management system like WordPress, Drupal or SquareSpace. The open file format (json+images) enables our community to create what a single company may never be able to build. Let’s not forget what brought many designers from Photoshop to Sketch in the first place - a fast and simple design tool with thousands of extensions. The approach of mirroring Sketch’s design features shows its limits. Invision Studio, still in Beta, is promising.

FLINTO OR ATOMIC FULL

Although helpful for simple click-through prototypes, the Sketch+Invision or Sketch+Marvel combination is still a safer choice for full spectrum solutions (design, prototype and share). It is now moving towards the prototyping space. I don’t know many designers who would take the leap of not having access to their files when travelling or when the Internet connection is slow. If you’re familiar with it, you’ll do great otherwise you better make some coffee and get ready to watch a few tutorials…!īrowser-only solutions or iFrame-like applications such as Atomic.io, proto.io, UXPin, etc. They require a different mindset than the traditional timeline-type approach.

That said, I will test the upcoming releases of XD as I believe that Adobe is on the right path!Īpart from these, we have the Quartz Composer-based solutions: Origami, Form and Unreal Engine for the gamers. It is fair for Adobe to rely on their wonderful ecosystem of products like Photoshop and Illustrator for the design aspect but in my opinion they need to provide more powerful interaction and animation tools. Pioneering solutions Axure and Balsamiq have a hard time catching up because they focus on functionality rather than user-workflow and experience.Īt the other end of the spectrum, solutions like Adobe XD do really well in the execution - they are solid, fast and reliable, but they fall short in the available feature set (basic stroke styles or on hover behaviors). The primary take away from my study is that features are not everything! On paper, solutions like JustinMind, Anima and Supernova have it all but they fall short in execution - by being slow and unstable. I have tried not to just include design and prototyping tools in the short review and again when it comes to UX and testing we are living in the land of plenty with ever-evolving online services to help build and test amazing user-centric products.Īll designers and UX evangelists now just need to decide what type of candy they prefer.The full interactive table is available here. It’s also clear that the advantages such as collaboration and access anywhere of web apps will eventually mean we are all working in the cloud with no loss in speed or tool set. Significantly the move to web apps by many developers as opposed to desktop apps is surprising but frankly many of the web apps are so fantastically developed that it’s very hard, if not impossible, to differentiate. Sketch has set the pace and either developers are aligning themselves with Sketch as part of the workflow or are learning from its amazing usability. Since 2000 we have had very little to interrupt the dominance of Adobe apart from very few exceptions, such as Affinity designer, but never has there been a truly competent design tool for interactive media until now. In the 80’s and 90’s we pretty much had Macromedia and Adobe slogging it out with Adobe winning the day. Never in my memory have we had such choice of exceptional design tools.

Flinto or atomic