Meet STUDIO 2.0 — Design. Collaborate. Publish.

Yutaka Ishii
STUDIO
Published in
4 min readJan 21, 2019

Web Design. Redesigned.

The web design process is in desperate need for a change. Despite the advances of technology of the past decades which brought about powerful software that enables creatives in movie and video games industry to create visually, the process of making websites has remained very much unaltered.

From creating wireframes and prototypes, to developer hand-off and subsequent feedback loops, to coding; the multi-step process is still lengthy and fragmented. Writing the endless lines of code required to create a responsive website accurately based on the prototype effectively takes over the web design process, leaving little time to focus on the creative part.

But what if we could code without coding at all? What if our design was instantly rendered into webpages? What if several designers and marketers could work on the design and the copy of a website simultaneously, while seeing the changes made by others in real time?

On STUDIO, this is possible.

Design, collaborate and publish websites all at once, all on one canvas. The web design process is finally simplified and you can focus on what matters most: designing.

Adaptive Layouts for Responsive Design

Responsive design is efficient on STUDIO thanks to the box-model layout: the same adaptive layout method actually used on the web development, where content flows in relation to other content on the canvas, flexibly keeping proportions and adapting automatically to any device and screen size.

Adaptive Layouts for Responsive Design

While the concept might feel foreign and complex at first, ultimately it makes it extremely easy and fast to create responsive websites.

All-in-one Web Design Platform

We are excited to launch today a new version of STUDIO re-built from the ground up. When we first launched in 2017, we were a prototyping tool. Today, we are an all-in-one design platform.

Design | Unleash your creativity.

Design | Unleash your creativity.

Design visually directly on the canvas. No HTML/CSS knowledge needed. Search for royalty free images, Google Fonts and even edit photos all within STUDIO. Forget juggling between multiple apps breaking your creative flow.

Native Unsplash integration

Collaborate | Your team in one place.

Collaborate | Your team in one place.

Collaborate in real time & share a live preview with anyone. Invite as many team members, clients and stakeholders as needed. With one URL. So you finally don’t have to keep track of where “newfinal_final_v27” is.

Real-time Collaboration

Publish | One Click Publish.

One Click Publish

What you see is what you get. No more waiting for developers to translate your design to code.

Some other great new features 🤞

  • Drag & Drop 3.0: A smooth and intuitive design experience.
  • Google Font : With native Google Fonts integration, pick and start applying your favorite fonts with ease.
Google Font Integration
  • Dark mode: Switch on and off dark mode as you wish to focus on perfecting your design without distractions.

The Road Ahead 👣

This is just the beginning. We have a lot in store for 2019 already, including component elements, Animation and a visual CMS.

Ultimately, our vision is not only to enable web designers to focus on creating anything they want without restrictions and on a single canvas, but also to let them do so with the same ease and freedom that they feel with the prototyping tools they already love.

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