Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by danielbru » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps
relativewave.com

Re: Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by unclebunkers » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 6:59 PM UTC

Your site design makes me nauseous, and it's not clear what I'm looking at.

Re: Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by perishabledave » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 7:10 PM UTC

Just watched the demo. Looks similar to Origami. The price is relatively high, will there be a trial version?

Also, I'm a bit confused about Relative Interface. You have a product page dedicated to it, but no links to either the source or information on how to purchase it.

Re: Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by peckrob » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 7:42 PM UTC

You might want to have a look at this site in Firefox.

I'm on Firefox 32 on Mac and the videos are grainy and blocky (like trying to watch satellite TV during a rain storm or a badly compressed JPEG). It's so bad I'm having a really hard time telling what they're showing. The header video only loads about every 5th time for me, otherwise I get either a spinner or just a blank white screen.

When it shows up, I also can't click the "Get Mac App" or "Get iOS Viewer" buttons. They doesn't seem to do anything.

Opened it up in Safari and Chrome and looks and work much better.

Re: Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by mxweas » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 9:15 PM UTC

peckrob wrote: post #4

You might want to have a look at this site in Firefox. I'm on Firefox 32 on Mac and the videos are grainy and blocky (like trying to watch satellite TV during a rain storm or a badly compressed JPEG). It's so bad I'm having a really hard time telling what they're showing. The header video only loads about every 5th time for me, otherwise I get either a spinner or just a blank white screen. When it shows up, I also ca…

Unfortunately, Firefox only supports Ogg for video. Although it's open, it's far worse than h.264 for quality :(

Re: Form: interaction and prototyping design tool for iOS apps

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Post by mxweas » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 9:17 PM UTC

perishabledave wrote: post #3

Just watched the demo. Looks similar to Origami. The price is relatively high, will there be a trial version? Also, I'm a bit confused about Relative Interface. You have a product page dedicated to it, but no links to either the source or information on how to purchase it.

RelativeInterface is the framework that powers rendering for compositions made with Form. There's no need to purchase it. We're hoping to open it up for people to use in non-Form projects, but that announcement will be coming later.

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Post by notduncansmith » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 10:36 PM UTC

I really expected clicking on the down button to scroll me downwards. I was disappointed.

That said, after watching the tutorial video I noticed that the narrator was able to accomplish quite a bit, with relatively low technical knowledge. It makes me wonder why building real apps isn't this easy.