From Sketching to Prototype

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

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.

Your Job is to Try 10,000 Things

Have you ever had an idea that seemed good, but you wouldn’t be sure until you were able to try it out? Designers face this conundrum frequently when deciding how a software feature should work. If you don’t face this challenge, you’re either a genius, or you mistakenly…

Dig in to Pasquale D’Silva’s Jupiter Weather Prototype, Made with Flinto for Mac

Pasquale D’Silva designed a fun Jupiter Weather app prototype which we added as an example to Flinto’s viewer app. Lots of people have been asking where they can download the prototype to try…

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