If you’re an app developer or designer then you know how difficult, & how useful it can be to prototype your creations. A good prototype can help you & your team to visualize a concept, your backers to invest in an idea & to whet customers’ appetites for your upcoming app masterpiece. This is where the ‘Flinto’ for Mac prototyping tool can really be useful. Thanks to its power & simplicity it allows you to create simple pass-through, or comprehensive prototypes without timelines or coding.
Flinto allows you to design the most simple animated transitions as well as highly complex ones, & once they work for you, you can reuse them. You have full control over each layer, even spring or cubic-bezier easing.
The tool comes with a full set of features to help you create better prototypes, like:
- A behavior designer to create micro interactions within 1 screen, for toggle switches, looping animations, button effects & scroll-based animations
- Gestures for smooth natural animations, using your finger with swipes & taps to create smooth movement in your transitions
- Scrolling areas on your screen including paging & nested scroll groups, as well as scroll-based animations
- Import from your Mac’s Sketch app directly through the included Sketch plugin, import/export with ease
- ‘Live’ preview design changes & get instant feedback with the included iOS viewer app.
- Sharing of prototypes for anyone to view via the iOS viewer app which can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store
Flinto began as a startup in 2012 & was founded by designer Nathan Manousos & software engineer Kazuho Okui. It’s based in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
– This post is merely a startup profile based on publicly available information & not a review. -
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