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Principle - Animate designs (like a simple Quartz Composer)(principleformac.com)

almost 8 years ago from Aubrey Johnson, VP Design & UX at Dosh. Led design: @scienceinc, @color, @twilio

  • Vlad Danilov, almost 8 years ago

    There are Pixate and Form backed up by Google, Origami by Facebook, iAd Producer and Keynote by Apple and Framer, all free.

    xkcd - standards

    10 points
    • JC .JC ., almost 8 years ago (edited almost 8 years ago )

      I've just tried the free rial of Principal and the UI and workflow is quite simple and intuitive. I have not used the tools you've mentioned, but how would you rank them by ease of use?

      0 points
      • Vlad Danilov, almost 8 years ago

        (easy) Pixate > Origami / Form / Quartz Composer > Framer (hard)

        I don't use them extensively though.

        1 point
        • Rolando MurilloRolando Murillo, almost 8 years ago

          I honestly had never used Pixate before. Tried both Principle and Pixate and the former wins. It's just better designed, more intuitive and much faster.

          2 points
        • Eli SchiffEli Schiff, almost 8 years ago

          Where would you place Principal in that hierarchy?

          0 points
          • Vlad Danilov, almost 8 years ago

            Principal is more expressive than Pixate. But on the fidelity scale it’s worse. Another consideration is feature parity, e.g. Framer (and partly Origami) is the only one integrated with design tools.

            0 points
    • Ethan BondEthan Bond, almost 8 years ago (edited almost 8 years ago )

      Personal use software doesn't need to be standardized, though... You know, free market etc. etc. Within an organization things should be standardized for the sake of collaboration, sure. But Principal isn't trying to get itself an ANSI number.

      1 point
      • Vlad Danilov, almost 8 years ago

        Surely the picture is a bit abstract. But who wouldn’t want to be an industry standard? In any case, I welcome the competition.

        0 points