6/2/2023 0 Comments Sketch to protopieYou can use this as a quick way to find and add components you have already used in your pie to add more instances. When you drag out a component into a scene it will be added to this section. Any components saved here are only accessible to the Pie you create them in. You can think of this as the current version of the components panel in version 4. In the component panel you have the following features: Using interaction librariesĪll interaction libraries associated with your team account can be accessed from a revamped component panel. For any freelance designer, I can see this as a definite need. With this method, you don’t get the connectivity of updates but it does still allow you to use your libraries outside of teams. There is a workaround to this which is to create a library of components as a regular Pie file as ProtoPie 5.0 has an Export as New Library feature. For the ability to share a library you need to have a Team plan. With an Individual plan, you can create personal libraries for use within your own prototypes but because a library file isn’t physically saveable to your computer you can’t share the library with other designers. It's worth mentioning at this point that the features of interaction libraries differ depending on whether you have an Individual or Team plan. Publishing changes to Cloud make interaction libraries accessible to you or other team members to use. Instead, they are synced from ProtoPie Cloud to ProtoPie Studio. For example, library files can't be saved locally like a regular Pie file. … and defiantly a work in progress.The new revamped component panel showing libraries Defiantly going off in all different prototyping directions at the moment. Since I saw someone talking about Lottie today online I thought I would share what I’ve been up to. So let’s see where this goes on my next App project. This even gives the option to design an animated Lottie file, place it in ProtoPie and then test it, and then use the same asset as production asset. Giving me more options when exploring ideas. So the graphic below is an animated PNG (aPNG), but I can also output this as a Lottie jSON asset for te developers, output as an animated SVG (aSVG), or even an iOS launch animation plus some others. Since this App is very new, still feels simple but I know it actively being worked on so I’m looking forward to seeing were this app is going. Also much simpler then using After Effects in my opinion. This animation software is very similar to my other prototyping software so didn’t take me too long to pick up. – Something that Sketch can’t really do.īelow is a screen show from Flow. This brought me back to me Flow, since I had last used to them they had improved a lot, they had launched a full Lottie exporter and I can see they are slowly designing a piece of software that will help me hand off certain types of graphics to developers like Animations, or more specially Lottie and Animated PNG’s. I’m used to designing with movement in mind. So the logical next step was pick up something to help me create animated illustrations, since Micro Interaction had tough me the basics of movement x, y, scale etc etc. So slowly both of these ideas were coming together, illustration and movement. The end result of this was my Oodle Finance project. You can see the need, you just need to find a method to getting it out of your head. This is the great thing because of being a Designer. So I few projects ago I picked up my pencil and started seeing if I could solve my own problem. In another string to my brow kinda project as mentioned above Im often either in need for an illustrator or asking for one. I had a hunch that this software might be able to help me out one day… so a got a licence and kinda for got about it. Seeming generic name without a clear focus, at first I thought it was an other prototyping program but in fact they seemed like something more interesting. Since I design mainly in Sketch and then designing in motion with ProtoPie or what ever the flavour of the year is i stumbled across a small piece of software called Flow. Two kinda different skills but both seem to have over lap with animation. That being Micro Interactions and Illustrations. This is what brought me to combine two of skills i’ve been pursuing for a while. Being focused on User Experience Design and an interest in current and emerging technology cupeled with keen desire to create beautiful and functional interfaces general means Im constantly exploring either tech, trying out new software or reading about sociology.
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