2 components needed for making any Site or app is development & design. Design tool ‘Haiku’ now makes development & design quite easy, getting designers & developers on the same bandwidth.
Haiku essentially is a desktop app for Mac for creating interactive, animated UI components.
Haiku provides you more speed & power to make your design & development task creative & fast. You can use it to design for desktop screens or a mobile application. Plus, you can even share your work straight to Haiku to get feedback.
What Haiku does is negate the need for a whole-time designer for your Website, blog or app, which might be costly for a startup.
Haiku is an Online architecture that can be used to breathe life into any Site or app. At its heart, Haiku is an open-source tool, with the Haiku Core, an SVG-and-DOM animation engine that interprets your designs as code on the Web.
Every Haiku component works out-of-the-box with any React or other Web codebase. Haiku animations also work natively in any iOS or Android app, by exporting to Lottie.
From design to code to back again is the motto of this startup.
With the Haiku app installed on your workstation, you can:
- Bring any Sketch design to life with animation
- Add interactivity by responding to user events & data
- Publish your creation as a clean, Web-ready component
- Embed your component with just a few lines of code
Here are its other features:
Haiku is for shipping to production: Every component you make in Haiku is automatically optimized for production — this is not a prototyping tool.
Haiku is for engineers, too: Under the hood, every Haiku component is clean JavaScript code that you can always hand-edit, without breaking the link to the source design. No more reworking your handcrafted code as fresh design changes come in.
Haiku is for teams: Every change you make in Haiku is automatically tracked in a version control system, so your work is always safe. Haiku can integrate with a wide variety of app platforms & frameworks, too.
– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: Haiku
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