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Show HN: Framer Studio – Interaction Design Tool

29 pointsby koenbokalmost 11 years ago

2 comments

primigenusalmost 11 years ago
This is really cool and one of the first products I&#x27;ve seen beyond our own that addresses a specific need: simple prototyping using code. There are many &quot;without writing code!&quot; prototyping apps, and many non-app code libraries and frameworks, but few that combine the two.<p>Our product is for HTML prototyping and intended to be used for making quick interactive mockups of web apps and sites. Part of the reason it exists is because we&#x27;ve always felt that you need to write code to accurately mock interactions; just using canned stuff provided by most drag-and-drop interaction design tools doesn&#x27;t cut it. We launched in 2010 and in the four years since, no one has really addressed a similar niche.<p>Framer seems to be a cool alternate approach: first off, it&#x27;s focusing on mobile apps and small touch-based interactions with a lot of animation. That&#x27;s great since that&#x27;s where the market is now. But it&#x27;s also different in that it looks like you only write Coffeescript and no HTML or CSS. I guess that&#x27;s a good development too, since during prototyping you just want to describe behaviour and not focus on managing semantics, document structure, styling, etc - best to just have the tool handle it for you through the abstraction provided by FramerJS.<p>Good to see Framer is being developed by fellow Dutchies, too! We should organise a prototyping meetup or something. :)
kremlinalmost 11 years ago
props for not having a confusing front page that is very vague about what it actually does. This should be proof that you can be stylish <i>and</i> clear.