It’s Particle Time! How To Use A Physics Engine With Framer

A module for adding 2D physics simulations to your Framer prototypes.

My first article on prototyping in Framer looked at how to write a custom layer class and save it as a module. This follow-up takes things to the next level with an experiment in physics.

What would it take to build a simple physics simulation in Framer?

I recently set…

I, robot — talking to computers about identity, culture and the end of humanity.

Most days my laptop wakes up not long after I do, to connect me to the global computer network. At night, as I lie in bed, I see it doze off and begin to snore. We live and work together, cross the city together. We’re joined at the hip. I’m half Mac, I guess. Donna Haraway would call me a cyborg, a cybernetic organism, part human part machine. She says human subjectivity is increasingly dependent on machines, that we’re all cyborgs. Do machines have a subjectivity too? How is it formed, and how does all of this affect culture?

In his 1950 paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Alan Turing proposed the idea of an “imitation game” to provide the answer to the question “Can machines think?”. The game is played with three people: a man, a woman, and an Interrogator who may be of either sex. The object of…

Ring-a-Ding-Ding — How I created a custom layer class in Framer and learnt to draw SVGs with code.

In the last year or so, there’s been a massive explosion of prototyping tools for UX designers. Of these, Framer is arguably the most powerful and versatile. But Framer prototypes are created in code and, for a designer, getting started can feel intimidating.

I recently set myself the challenge of…

It’s Particle Time! How To Use A Physics Engine With Framer

A module for adding 2D physics simulations to your Framer prototypes.

I, robot — talking to computers about identity, culture and the end of humanity.

Ring-a-Ding-Ding — How I created a custom layer class in Framer and learnt to draw SVGs with code.

Giles Perry