Live Animation Specs

Isn’t it strange that we go to great lengths to make our animations just right, but then have no easy way to share it with engineers who will actually build this?

The challenge is — how do we share ‘moving’ data in a ‘static’ document? While thinking about this, I…

Comics, Rage and Poetry

For introducing Mitya, I wanted to capture the predicament of today’s Interaction Designer in comic form. After running through several different ideas and storyboards, three finalists emerged. The one on the home page is the winner. I wanted to share with you the other two finalists…

Sharing Animation data with Engineering

Sharing animation data of our prototype with the engineering team is super important, but fairly complicated. I’ve just implemented a feature in Mitya to make this a lot easier. If you click on Project | Get Anim Data for Engineers, you’ll get a screen like…

The Birth of Mitya

Imagine an author had to write a novel using Photoshop. Or, a programmer had to code in Word. Doesn’t even make sense, right? But this is what Interaction Designers are forced to put up with right now. IxDs have to use After Effects, a static video editing tool, or Quartz Composer, a…