Designing the Icons for Flinto’s UI

What goes into creating a meticulous icon system

What Douglas Engelbart Taught Me About Designing User Interfaces

Advanced Gesture Options in Flinto for Mac

There are powerful options hiding in the gesture panels in Flinto for Mac’s…

Handing off your Prototype: Spring Options

As part of recent updates to Flinto for Mac we’ve made improvements to support the…

From Sketching to Prototype

Sketching is a great way to start your app designs because it allows you…

Connected Layers, the Details

Connected layers is a feature in Flinto for Mac that makes creating certain transitions easy. For example, a photo zoom effect where a small photo on one screen zooms up to a full-sized photo on a second screen. Connected layers come in handy whenever you have two layers in…

Prototyping with 3d Animations

Flinto for Mac is one of the few UI design tools that supports 3D rotation of layers, and it enables some really cool effects. Here’s an example.

Stab Your Software

The microwave at my old apartment had a voice memo feature. Microwaves are the classic example of an interface that is more complicated than it needs to be. Microwaves have so many buttons, and most of them are never used. On better-designed microwaves, there’s a button “Add 30 Seconds” which…

Functional Vs. Superfluous UI Animations

When something becomes easy, people go crazy with it. Desktop publishing made it possible for anyone to print a flyer, and it was seconds before someone decided it would be fun to include as many fonts and clip art as possible.