[Smirnoff]

I really wish there was a prototyping tool that could serve as a learning tool to jump from being a designer to a programmer.

The problem with tools like Origami (and Framer.js) is that you need to know coding and many designers just don't know it. Thus, they stick with easier solutions like Principle. It would be great if a tool could start off looking like Sketch and slowly become Xcode as I learn more features and become more experienced.

[pavlov]

Try Neonto?

https://neonto.com

It is essentially a bridge from designs into Xcode and Android Studio. There's a Sketch import plugin too that preserves elements: https://neonto.com/sketch

[redindian75]

wow.. looks too good to be true!

Ive been searching for something like this..and never heard of this!

Thanks a bunch!

[darknoon]

Anecdotally, I have a friend who is a designer who did a lot of Quartz Composer prototyping and eventually learned ObjC to implement some of his designs. Seems like once you get the idea of building out gestures and animations it transfers across the specifics of Patches / textual code / etc. Now he writes c++, swift, etc :D

[svarrall]

Flash was this for me. Started with the animation tools and slowly started writing action script to make it interactive. Try Interface Builder in XCode it allows you to do all of the layout side, but you quickly need to start writing snippets of code to do things like round corners and change border colours.

[gk3]

theres no code involved in origami, and framer is slowly automating a lot of the code required to get start with simple prototypes