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Drama – Draw user interfaces and create interactive prototypes
- blorenz 7y agoI have played around with it the past day and the product is fairly efficient with excellent tutorials. I think it would be a capable product to create presentations with. I haven't had experience with Adobe XD or FramerX therefore I cannot compare and contrast.
- gmueckl 7y agoHow is this app different from Adobe XD?
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoIt has an epic feature: It isn't an adobe product.
- simlevesque 7y agoyup. I boycott them since they leaked my best password.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoE0F4^DDu2hX&8Hk4 Here's a new one.
- saagarjha 7y agoCongrats, you just made that password unusable…
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- littlestymaar 7y agoPro tip: add 2 in the end and it's fine again ;)
- tobr 7y agoAnd now that one is wasted too :(
- PixelCut 7y agoIt supports rotating layers in 3D space, so you can draw things like this: https://player.vimeo.com/video/350311600?background=1#t=0s https://player.vimeo.com/video/350311600?background=1#t=0s It has a very fine-grained transition editor, allowing you to precisely control the animation of individual attributes of individual layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLxEW8Fzn3xvw3eZX7oH8RcMzFdLA4J1Ny&v=9ppGYAUt_I8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLxEW8Fzn3xvw3eZX7oH8RcMz... It can be used to create timeline-based animations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyOvkWLQ7qw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyOvkWLQ7qw It has Drivers, allowing you to define how some layers should change when attributes of other layers change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDszsz-CG00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDszsz-CG00 And finally, it has built-in version control system with real-time access to entire document history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4h-v6vaOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW4h-v6vaOE
- philote 7y agoHow is this better than or different from InVision? Also, it is Mac only but does not say that anywhere on the site.
- jason-festa 7y agoDo you mean Studio? Also, is Studio still being supported? Is it live? I feel like a lot people felt it was half done? Maybe I need a new build.
- partlysean 7y agoStudio is still being developed and is live, though it’s not reliable enough for mission critical work. Still very buggy and quirky. I wish apps like InVision Studio and Framer X would focus less on being a place to do all your designing and more on being a really powerful prototyping tool. I don’t want a half-baked Sketch replacement.
- philote 7y agoI've only had minimal experience with InVision Cloud, which our designer used and seems to be similar to Drama. But being web-based it's not limited to Mac.
- mortenjorck 7y agoSurprisingly not mentioned until the bottom of the page is that this is by an established boutique Mac software company, PixelCut (makers of PaintCode). This is not an overburdened Electron app dependent on a SaaS subscription, but an actual, honest-to-goodness Mac application for prototyping interactions.
- saagarjha 7y agoI think it's somewhat obvious that this is a native application from the screenshots, but that might just be me…
- bogwog 7y ago> This is not an overburdened Electron app dependent on a SaaS subscription, but an actual, honest-to-goodness Mac application for prototyping interactions. Well I'm sold
- GordonS 7y ago> This is not an overburdened Electron app I was kind of hoping it was a (carefully made) Electron app, so I could use it on Windows.
- flixic 7y agoIt is amazing how vibrant the macOS-exclusive UI design ecosystem is, with many high quality apps: Sketch, Flinto, Principle, IconJar, PaintCode and more. The second best ecosystem is web apps, spearheaded by Figma, and arguably Adobe's XD standing on its own. There are almost no Windows- or Linux-exclusive tools.
- aloer 7y agoI read somewhere that Sketch was only possible because of the high quality of osx/quartz at the time. Lots of low level work already done by Apple. But now that has become the reason they can’t compete with web based tools like Figma
- meerita 7y agoI celebrate these apps. I wish there were more apps that takes us out of Adobe world. I'm using Sketch + Pixelmator and I am planning on learning Affinity Designer too. I will give this one a shot.
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoSame. I'm actually working on my own app in this space, although what I'm doing is radically different. My app focuses on describing visual requirements, and the "canvas" is just a rendered simulation. Ditching wysiwyg entirely.
- ezequiel-garzon 7y agoAny previews?!
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoNot yet, still in the prototyping phase, nailing down the core functionality. But just think "basically chrome dev tools but made for designers".
- alexhamon 7y agoThis app looks like Kite Compositor (https://kiteapp.co/ https://kiteapp.co/) and Principal (https://principleformac.com/ https://principleformac.com/) melded into one (both native Mac apps). Nice work!
- jg23 7y agoGot to say that Kite is amazing, and it generates Swift code as well!
- tenaciousDaniel 7y agoHonest question - do you find generated code to be useful? I've always had a very strong bias against it, due to the fact that implementation details can vary so widely.
- flixic 7y agoThis looks extremely similar to Principle app, even down to how some concepts are called (Driver for gesture-driven transitions). I’m a big fan of PaintCode and the quality seems pretty high, but it seems to lack a couple of features that make Principle a phenomenal app: masks and components.
- PixelCut 7y agoMasks are available: https://www.drama.app/documentation/inspector#opacity-and-masking https://www.drama.app/documentation/inspector#opacity-and-ma... Components are coming in future updates.
- peternicky 7y agoIs this strictly for building iOS/mobile UIs? From a quick look at the documentation and website I was left with the impression this is not for desktop or web applications. If those platforms are not supported, is it on the roadmap?
- MPetitt 7y agoI usually hate the lazy and dismissive "what's the difference between this and x" comments, but as a UX/Design focused UI developer, I think I'm part of the target market for this. But this looks very similar to FramerX without some of the things I love most about FramerX. It looks like all the input/output is proprietary Drama stuff. Framer lets me paste in content designed in Sketch, or import production components we've already built in React. The end result of a FramerX project can be exported as a static webpage you can do whatever you want with (host, A/B test, embed). A designer can start designing a component in FramerX, and I can later add the logic while retaining their styles/animations/interactions. Then we can pull that completed component into our component library, which can then be used in production and imported into other FramerX projects. I can't critique anything they show on their website, and the results look great (any attempt to make interaction design easier is a godsend), but right out the gate as a web guy it seems like a big disadvantage even if it outshined FramerX as a general interactive prototyper.
- tobr 7y agoThis looks very nice. There’s a lot of competitors in the space now, though. One thing that makes me think twice is the proprietary output. It’s extremely valuable for a design process if you can share the prototypes with people regardless of what platform they use. Arguably that’s one of the purposes of a prototype, to bring a design to life for everyone involved in the project. Very useful for user testing (the other purpose) over video, too.
- skelet 7y agoI'm not sure if its frowned upon or not, but I have a questionnaire for designers/developers using such tools. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2CVHGL2 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2CVHGL2
- rememberlenny 7y agoPlease share the results too.
- skelet 7y agowill do. thanks